Posted on 05/31/2020 2:08:16 PM PDT by Morgana
Shocking new surveillance video appears to show George Floyd in a violent struggle with Minneapolis police before his death.
Floyd can't be seen in the footage, but one cop can be seen leaning through the back door and visibly struggling with him.
The clip was posted by activist Shaun King, who wrote: 'BREAKING: Just got this new video. It’s all coming together. Police were in the car beating the sh** out of George Floyd. One stands watch, while the others attacked him.'
Later, white officer Derek Chauvin was captured on video by a bystander kneeling on Floyd's neck as he begged for air.
Floyd, 46, fell unconscious and died, and Chauvin, 44, has since been charged with third-degree murder and second-degree manslaughter, which are filed in cases of unintentional death.
Chauvin also was accused of ignoring another officer who expressed concerns about Floyd, a black man, as he lay handcuffed on the ground.
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I am sure this will get me flamed by many on here but so be it. Whether he resisted at one point, was guilty of knowingly passing fake money is irrelevant!! He was on the ground, cuffed and not resisting in the video. When the cop had his leg on his neck and the Floyd complained THE HUMAN thing to do would have been to check on his welfare.
Resisting police, unless one is going for an officers gun, doesnt carry the death penalty. Neither does passing funny money. The cop acted with a disregard to human life. If Floyd started to resist again they could have easily restrained a handcuffed individual on his stomach surrounded by 4 cops!!!
To let others know I am not a bleeding heart or anti-cop. But when they act wrongly they need to be mad an example of as in this case. Also in case anyone was wondering I dont think it was a racial incident and that the “protests”/looting/rioting that are occurring now are wrong and are perpetrating an injustice on others in the same way an injustice was perpetrated on Floyd.
Here is a great podcast episode on the issue. Also by the way the main person speaking, Pastor Jeff Durbin is a martial arts expert and has trained police on retraint techniques.He comes at his conclusions from a biblical perspective, a perspective that as he points out has greatly influenced our justice system.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OQjb32rYd_g
Because Chauvin was the unlucky cop of those thousands whose suspect died of a heart attack while he was being restrained.
Lots of people die in police custody, because police deal with lots of subjects high on drugs who abuse their bodies.
An excellent question. It looks to me like he was having a cradio event even while seated against the outside of the building where he sat handcuffed. His staggering across the street in tow is not identifiable as a cardiac event in progress since he had drugs and alcohol in his sytem. IF he was in the midst of a cardiac event he would be having trouble breathing, with tightness int he chest and momentary blackness in vision and loss of coordination at times during the event. I personally would like to see what went on in that ambulance that appeared and suddenly left with him, without doing cpr on the scene. I would bet the work was frantic in the ambulance, trying to get a pulse, start an airway, attaching monitoring equipment. The EMT’s may have recognized a cardiac event had happened, but the police, especially Chauvin did not when it was in progress. Fecklessness is not criminal but it sure needs to be dealt with, and throughout the department, not just with one or four officers.
He violently resisted arrest. That explains why the police were aggressive. However, folks only want to see one side of the entire incident.
That’s because there is only one side: A dirty cop was assaulting a handcuffed and unconscious prisoner after being told he had no pulse.
You seriously want to defend that criminality by dirty cops?
It's very common with all races, and people who have a problem with authority figures and with people in uniform. People who are confronted by the police today, if in a crowd, will act accordingly, and put on a show for their audience. They are big and brave when they have friends around to encourage them, but get them alone, and they turn into pussies. In my 25 years in Corrections, I met all kinds of a$$holes, some of them in uniform. I always told a convict, that if he wanted to act like an a$$hole, he would be treated like an a$$hole, and that we could do things the easy way, or the hard way, but whatever way he chose, it was going be done.
As a Sergeant, when we were ordered to move someone from a housing unit to special housing for disciplinary reasons, the inmate was given the opportunity to pack his own stuff up. If he gave me, or any of the officers lip, or resisted, I told him if he wasn't going to comply, I'd have a couple of officers do it for him, but I couldn't guarantee what condition his stuff would be in when he finally got it back after his release from SHU. That usually did it, and the a-hole complied.
That wasn’t my question but thank you for the response.
“Would he still be alive if he hadn’t resisted arrest in the first place?”
Would he be alive if the cop released his hold when the subject passed out which is REQUIRED per procedures?
Mine were public.
Here's one:
Go gargle JBT jizz somewhere else.
So there WAS a reason to get him on the ground and hold him down.
I want to see the tox reports.
I don’t. Cop A told Cop B that their handcuffed prisoner had no pulse. Despite that Cop B continued to assault the DEAD prisoner for many minutes. Case closed. Get a rope.
Could you show us that?
All I have seen is the ME says is the circumstance of his being restrained by police likely contributed to his death.
That would include his violent struggle and everything involved. The knee might or might not have been an issue.
But, as another poster noted, you cannot tell how much pressure is being applied by the video.
“Would he still be alive if he hadn’t resisted arrest in the first place?”
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Maybe...maybe not. I wish they would release the autopsy results. His “I can’t breath” exclamations indicate a shortness of breath symptom which can possibly go with congestive heart failure or with a condition limiting the oxygenation of his blood. Hell, he could have died of COVID-19.
“Would he still be alive if he hadn’t resisted arrest in the first place?”
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Maybe...maybe not. I wish they would release the autopsy results. His “I can’t breath” exclamations indicate a shortness of breath symptom which can possibly go with congestive heart failure or with a condition limiting the oxygenation of his blood. Hell, he could have died of COVID-19.
I saw a guy who was possibly faking his distress. He was doing it the entire time, mugging and overacting for the public according to the several videos I’ve watched. Maybe these cops knew GF and thought he was faking his discomfort. Or maybe they hear this stuff all the freaking time and have become immune to how criminals behave when in custody. I think many posters here would rather have a police force made up of liberal bleeding heart snowflakes who cater to every whim of the person in custody. SMDH.
Noor got 12 years. His lawyers asked that no time be served, and are asking for a new trial. And over the past couple of days I read that some black attorneys, and/or black/muslim leaders have been demanding Noor be released over Floyd's death.
Cop A also wanted to roll him on his side to help his breathing.
Sad to see all this diversion on this site. Some are outright lying in there excuses for this cop.
Never said they were.
LOL!
Artists on steroids.
“Because Chauvin was the unlucky cop of those thousands whose suspect died of a heart attack while he was being restrained. “
IF he had a heart attack why did the cop continue the hold a NOT give medical assistance?
“with a condition limiting the oxygenation of his blood”
Like. a knee. on. the. neck?
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