Okay, but that won't kill a person.
Floyd was a scumbag. But he didn't deserve to die like that.
He chose to take the drugs that killed him. "Deserve" has got nothing to do with it. He did it, and it killed him.
How many damn times does someone have to say "I can't breathe!" and show signs of extreme physical distress before you take him seriously and change up restraint tactics so that he can breathe?
You do know that not being able to process oxygen is a symptom of fentanyl poisoning? He was clearly taking air into his lungs because he was able to say "I can't breath."
The not being able to get oxygen is what happens when you overdose on fentanyl.
Floyd was already cuffed before he ended up on the ground. He should have been stuffed into the squad car in spite of his protestations and driven to the station pronto.
He *WAS* stuffed into the squad car. When you see him on the ground, it was because he was removed from the squad car. I saw the video of them taking him OUT of the squad car, because he was acting like he had a medical problem.
Go look at that video. Let me see if I can find it for you.
Okay, I haven't found the video of them pulling him out of the squad car, but here is a video of him struggling while he is *IN* the squad car.
I think you have been greatly misled about what happened. The News liars were pumping it up to create racial tensions to help them in the election against Trump.
Floyd was jacked, not dopey, so it seems to me that though there was fentanyl in his bloodstream, it wasn't anywhere enough to kill him on its own, and the fact that he could speak enough to croak out, "I can't breathe!" over and over again doesn't prove that his airway wasn't at least partially restricted.
For God's sake, Floyd was crying out to his mother at one point, a sure sign that he knew he was dying and a sure sign for those restraining him that things were going seriously south. But no, what you here from the cops is an ice cold, inhuman tenor. Ugh.
Here's what I think killed him: A bad heart which was fatally overstressed by Chauvin's unrelenting actions restricting his airway. The guy wasn't joking when he said, with serious panic in his voice, "I can't breathe," over and over again. Listen to the freaked out pleas of the passers-by in the vid long version, which you can find on the Wapo site. Even when it was obvious that Floyd was gone, Chauvin and company continued restraining him.