I think you’re wrong, read the charging documents. You can’t suffocate someone by only applying pressure to the back of the neck. Plus people that are being deprived of air, can’t speak. He had his hands behind his back so he was not laying on top of them and possibly contributing to positional asphyxiation. He should have had a nice unobstructed airway the way he was lying. I know because I sleep in that position every night for maximum air. But he might have had a heart attack and that’s why he couldn’t breathe.
There was one cop on his neck and three others on his body. Not sure why everyone cannot remember this fact.
Couple this with an off duty first responder begging for a pulse check after the man became unresponsive, and the officers not even doing that? After he is completely unresponsive?
No, this is negligence at the very minimum. A subdued man is the responsibility of the officers at the scene.
Also if you do not at least see excessive force, even after the man is unconscious, then you cannot be helped.
If this had been my son, a hell of alot more than Minneapolis would be burning. It may not have came that day or the next, but rest assured it would’ve been coming, and hell would be coming with it.
Traumatic asphyxia, or Perthes’s syndrome, is a medical emergency caused by an intense compression of the thoracic cavity, causing venous back-flow from the right side of the heart into the veins of the neck and the brain.