Clinically, I'm stating one fact (what was in the official autopsy report) and opining elsewhere. We could say that "And if Floyd died of a drug OD in the patrol car, we wouldn't be here." is speculation but has a high probability of being realistic.
Also do you know how little Fentynal it takes to kill? It ain't much as little as 0.75 ng/m.
Many rock stars ingest booze and drugs in such ridiculous quantities that they'd kill normal people. And yet they live to write books about it. Similarly, it is fair to say that if the level of fentenyl in Floyd's bloodstream was akin to a having downed a fifth of Everclear, then sure... it was potentially toxic. But to say he definitively OD'd from the drug is as believable as is the family's autopsy.
I am assuming you are a large metro cop and can speak cogently on what does and does not make a competent cop in a major metro area. You are fully trained in crowd control and arrest procedures.
No, I'm none of what you state.
Because if none of that is true you are just talking out your backside.
By your words, you are intimating that without first-hand experience we should keep quiet on such matters. Are only "climate scientists" allowed to speak of global warming, medical professionals the only ones to talk about COVID19, and so on? Must a man or woman be a card-carrying economist to state "There is going to be a downturn economically, if we are lucky we have a year to ride on the dying wave that is the Trump economic plan."?
Assuming I'm permitted to speak freely, based on lots of reading of police situations chiefly in Manhattan, and hearing from police officers, there are competent and incompetent cops. There are bad guys, too, and I'm willing to grant the police wide berth in such situations - in the same way the actions of military men and women under fire shouldn't be judged by us civilians in our HEPA-filtered, well-lit and secure offices.
When an incompetent cop get riled up, they become dangerous. It happened frequently in NYC. In this case I saw the footage and I saw a bad guy being incapacitated by an incompetent cop using a legal but by many accounts dangerous move. I think it's reasonable to presume that a competent cop would have handled that better...in part, because there are scores of hopped-up slugs on the streets of America and, as bad as the MSM is, I am not seeing a conga line of Floyd-like guys dying in police custody. I've also heard from people who ARE police et al and they feel the same way I do.
In a way, this is a bit like Dubya vs Lurch and Romney vs Obama. Dubya was great on 9/11 and sucked on just about everything else, but we aimed at Lurch and didn't speak ill of Dubya. Same with Romney...pretty much everyone who voted for him did it through grit teeth and we defended him against leftist attacks. Nowadays, we speak freely about these jackwagons yet you'd have been zotted had you done so back in the day. I believe many defend Chauvin out of fear that they'd be giving aid and comfort to Antifa et al if they spoke out against him.
Floyd, as I said, was no Saint. And, to be fair, he started this. I don't know what was in Chauvin's heart, and frankly I don't care. He's a lousy cop and the extent to which normally rational Deplorables are bending over backward to defend this loser is stunning. The world would be a better place if we didn't champion incompetence.
See this is where you try to sound like some expert but come off sound foolish. Man jumps off the Golden Gate Bridge and survives your argument is then it must be safe. Have you ever lost a family member to fentynal? This stuff is no joke. Its killing people by the thousands in this country and you equate it to drinking bottle of Everclear. Damn, you are either being hyperbolic, trolling or you are just special.
“By your words, you are intimating that without first-hand experience we should keep quiet on such matters.”
No I am telling you is that you are not an expert so stop trying to sound like one.
“Must a man or woman be a card-carrying economist to state “There is going to be a downturn economically, if we are lucky we have a year to ride on the dying wave that is the Trump economic plan.”?”
No dipstick, but it does help to have a graduate degree on the subject. To have worked in government and have experience with public policy. So...I speak not as an expert, but as someone who has the graduate degree and the experience. Does not make me an expert just a student of the subject. I take it your degree is in some form of criminal law then.
Of course you can speak freely and you can be freely disagreed with. I am not defending Chauvin, at all. But all we have heard is one side of the story, until we hear the defense we have limited knowledge. Being an expert on the subject, i am sure you are aware that in similar situations cops were not convicted because the City trained and allowed them to use certain dangerous techniques. I asked a cop about it and he said his department does not allow that technique, but others do. I guess we will find out during the trial.
Again it comes down to you deciding a cop is incompetent but you have no experience or expertise in this matter. You compare fentynal to Everclear and suggest drugs must be safe, entertainers use the stuff all the time if it was dangerous they would all be dead. Aren't you special!