He doesn’t check for a pulse himself. He doesn’t start CPR...
If he had just pulled off at that point, rolled him over, and started CPR, I bet we wouldn't be putting out fires all over the country today.
sure lol
Just the optics of the knee on the back of the neck would have caused the riot.
Precisely.
I heard someone who watched the video describe Mr. Kneecap as
“Cauldron Born” — from an old fiction story about a bad guy who cast dead people into a cauldron, and they’d come out as zombies...
The government has the burden of proving each and every element of its case beyond a reasonable doubt.
At this point, there appears to be substantial evidence which has come to light allowing the defense to challenge the government’s proof of its case on a murder charge beyond a reasonable doubt on multiple elements.
Whoever is representing the officer should be insisting that they also get a shot at having their expert conduct an autopsy. Three different experts conducting three different autopsies which come to three vastly different conclusions will raise reasonable doubts all over the place.
Much of the evidence presently being used to argue the officer is culpable will not be admissible. For example, previous complaints are not going to be admissible. If the complaints actually resulted in affirmative findings of misconduct, that could potentially be admissible. But so far I haven’t heard about substantiated complaints.
Meanwhile, the defense will be working hard to come up with a theory with the bad facts in Floyd’s background—and there appear to be a lot of them—are admissible. I predict they will succeed in getting at least some of those bad facts admitted.
I think DA Freeman will prove quite correct when he suggested the government might well turn out not to be in a position to prove each element of a murder case beyond a reasonable doubt.
Heh it would have been some other “crisis” and the same result. Once the Covid 19 crisis failed and States were opening back up, there had to be another “crisis” and this was it.