Having watched the film it is hard to find any defense of the cop who had a knee on the neck. It should be noted, however, that Floyd was on meth at the time of his death. I was once a loss prevention agent in retail. Most stops we made were pretty calm. Meth addicts are a whole different thing. It would take 5 people to do what usually 2 could handle. They never...never stopped fighting, cuffed or not. Still, we never even cam close to killing anyone. Also, these stops were for shoplifting alone. Meth addicts would almost always attack us.
I am not in anyway excusing the cop. Just adding to the discourse.
[[Having watched the film it is hard to find any defense of the cop who had a knee on the neck.]]
People high on drugs, even skinny slight folks- can be very dangerous- let alone a dude as large as George Floyd- The cops knew he was on something- (There is video of him acting very strange, and claiming he ‘couldn’t breath’ before he was even taken into custody- )
We’ll need to see the video of him resisting being put in vehicle though- they said he resisted for 10 minutes before he was on ground subdued— how vigorously was he fighting htem? While high on drugs, and having serious heart problems and clogged arteries?? Obviously during that 10 minutes he could breath- despite claiming he couldn’t-
[[Meth addicts are a whole different thing. It would take 5 people to do what usually 2 could handle. They never...never stopped fighting, cuffed or not]]
Exactly- i personally know of a case where it took 3 policemen to take down a 98lb weakling who was high on PCP- the kid was subdued- looked like everything was fine- then all hell broke loose- even after they got him into the squad car- he was still going mental- in restraints though by then so he couldn’t hurt anyone— people high on powerful drugs like that are very very dangerous- always- unless put into restraints where they can’t move and injure themselves or soemoen else-