And what did Chauvin disregard that a reasonable person would not have disregarded?
Lets face it everyone including me watched the videos of the event ad nauseum.
I'm pretty sure you are referring to the deliberately spread media propaganda lie that Chauvin was hurting Floyd. The question is, did you see the other videos before the famous media lie video?
The way you are responding to me makes me think you have not seen these videos.
A reasonable person which includes me and apparently a couple of LEOs on scene who questioned Chauvin’s continued kneeling on Floyd’s neck concluded he was at risk of harm.
I ran across a quote the other day that I hadn't seen before.
"The opinion of 10,000 men is of no value if none of them know anything about the subject." -MARCUS AURELIUS (121-180 AD)
Chauvin was not harming Floyd, despite the ignorant opinions of the other rookie officers present, and despite the opinions of all the video watching people who were unfamiliar with the technique.
The particular technique Chauvin was using was *TAUGHT* to the members of that police department during their academy training. It is illustrated in their teaching material. It was department approved and considered by that department to be a valid method of restraining someone.
Chauvin's bad looking restraining technique caused no harm to Floyd. Floyd died of a drug overdose.
It wasn’t murder but it wasn’t OK and Chauvinism was deliberately being an ahole.
Many people have said so, but after I learned more of the facts surrounding what Chauvin did, I am not so sure.
21 years is insane and I hope he gets a new trial and gets off with time served but he deserved some punishment IMO. I realize you disagree.
Well of course I disagree. What I learned informed me that what they show you and what is the truth is often not the same thing at all.
What exactly did Chauvin do that caused harm to Floyd? It wasn't the knee on his back or shoulder. There have been freepers that have said they had someone put their knee on their necks and it caused no harm to them.
If you are going to put a man in prison for 5 years, and effectively destroy his entire life as a consequence of that, you should have very very good and provable reasons that the man did something illegal.
I have seen no such proof regarding Chauvin. I've seen a mob rush to judgement.
Like I said even other LEOs were uncomfortable with Chauvin’s actions and they were standing right there on scene. Not watching from their recliner.
Lets face it all Chauvin had to do was cuff Floyd behind his back and prop him up Sitting against a patrol car. In his condition no way is he standing up unassisted. Then when Floyd died at some point further down the custody chain Chauvin would still be a cop. Like I said criminal negligence.