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Minneapolis Disaster: Fentanyl, Methamphetamine & Excited Delirium
Law Officer ^ | June 3,2020 | Law Officer

Posted on 06/03/2020 11:34:27 PM PDT by Penelope Dreadful

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To: ronnie raygun

Saint George has joined Saint Mike and Saint Trayvon in the black Pantheon. Blacks sure know how to pick them. All criminals who died engaged in criminal activity. Imagine if they chose innocent law abiding blacks like David Dorn.


41 posted on 06/04/2020 4:11:29 AM PDT by TheDon (MAGA!)
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To: Penelope Dreadful
The death of George Floyd after an interaction with the Minneapolis Police Department has rocked the world and while everyone reading this believes that an officer that put his knee in the back of Floyd’s neck for close to nine minutes was the cause of death, the facts and evidence are anything but that.

I'm not a police officer but I would suspect that in this day and age officers all over the country are faced with subduing suspects high on fentanyl and meth. I would not be surprised at all if this happened hundreds of times, maybe thousands of times, each day. And all those other suspects manage to make it to the police station alive and kicking.

No, kneeling on his neck was not the immediate cause of Floyd's death. But it was a contributing factor and one which the police were responsible for. Floyd may have died in their custody without being knelt on, we won't know. But he did die in their custody, their actions were a contributing factor in that, so they should be charged in his death.

42 posted on 06/04/2020 4:14:15 AM PDT by DoodleDawg
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To: riverrunner
Continue to not hold people responsible for their own actions.

Would that include the police officers who knelt on him?

43 posted on 06/04/2020 4:15:46 AM PDT by DoodleDawg
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To: irishjuggler
To pander to the mob, they’re over-charging right and left. But the more you stretch to charge, the harder it is to convict.

Not really. They charged Noor with second degree murder in the Justine Diamond shooting and the jury convicted him of third degree murder. That could well happen in this case as well.

44 posted on 06/04/2020 4:18:22 AM PDT by DoodleDawg
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To: Ron H.
Not that I'm an expert in such things but,imagining myself as a juror,if the defense were to focus on the *real* autopsy (and not the bought-and-paid-for one) and just say "this guy was,medically speaking,a ticking time bomb.Bad heart,the user of heavy stimulants...he could have keeled over dead just noticing that there was a parking ticket on his windshield".

And given the contents of the *real* autopsy the prosecution wouldn't dare call the County Medical Examiner as a witness...while questioning him they'd have to treat him as a "hostile witness".

Given what I know...or *think* I know...I could vote guilty on something that would get the kneeling cop 3 years...or maybe even 5...on some kind of "criminal negligence" charge.Nothing more.

It's been announced that the kneeling cop will be charged with 2nd Degree Murder.If,by chance,the jury isn't given an option to consider a lesser charge..."negligent homicide" for example...there's a real chance of a hung jury or a "not guilty" verdict.

45 posted on 06/04/2020 4:22:26 AM PDT by Gay State Conservative (The Rats Just Can't Get Over The Fact That They Lost A Rigged Election!)
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To: DoodleDawg

Perhaps taking synthetic Heroin and resisting arrest contributed to his own death. Why are we bending over backwards to excuse the crimes of some to search for a crime by others?

Straining at gnats, we swallow camels.


46 posted on 06/04/2020 4:38:03 AM PDT by American in Israel (A wise man's heart directs him to the right, but the foolish mans heart directs him toward the left.)
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To: nathanbedford

Many of us on these threads ought to apply the lesson drawn from the Zimmerman/Travon Martin case, the Freddie Gray case and the Michael Brown case, in each case we learned-or should have learned- that due process takes time to catch up to the mob.
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In each of these cases, there were Freepers rushing to join the mob. Are libertarian cop haters slowly taking over this site?


47 posted on 06/04/2020 4:55:41 AM PDT by Socon-Econ (adical Islam,)
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To: Valpal1

The author is leaving out the important information that restraint in prone positioning during excited delirium is also associated with higher death rates.

And he knows damn well that Chauvin’s “technique” contributed to the Floyd’s death because he was doing it wrong.
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A hindsight opinion in based on presumption that cops should be expected to know what’s in medical journals. Anyway, who would be responsible for teaching these nuances to the cops? President Trump?


48 posted on 06/04/2020 5:02:57 AM PDT by Socon-Econ (adical Islam,)
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To: American in Israel
Perhaps taking synthetic Heroin and resisting arrest contributed to his own death. Why are we bending over backwards to excuse the crimes of some to search for a crime by others?

Because there was a crime by others. Not just by others, but by others we pay to prevent crime and not commit it. I would agree with the medical examiner that all three factors - heart issues, drugs in system, kneeling on Floyd - contributed to Floyd's death. Take away any one of the three and it's probable that FLoyd doesn't die on the street there. But the three did occur, together they all contributed to his death, the police were responsible for one of three - an illegal act by police standards in and of itself, so the police need to be held responsible for their actions.

49 posted on 06/04/2020 5:08:15 AM PDT by DoodleDawg
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I could use a new tablet and perhaps a Bose stereo with speakers.


50 posted on 06/04/2020 5:22:02 AM PDT by Clutch Martin (The trouble ain't that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain't distributed right.)
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To: Jeff Chandler; Governor Dinwiddie
There is video.

It's been posted.

51 posted on 06/04/2020 5:36:39 AM PDT by Eagles6
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To: Penelope Dreadful
Baden didn't do an autopsy.

Well, that's news.

52 posted on 06/04/2020 5:39:04 AM PDT by Eagles6
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To: DoodleDawg

But it was not an illegal act by police standards, it was and is police protocol to use neck restraint.

However the presence of the drug does make that form of restraint dangerous. Unfortunately a police officer er struggling with a suspect does not have time to draw blood and wait for a toxicology report to know that the suspect has taken a powerful illegal sedative.

Assuming that form of restraint is illegal is a problem.

He did not die from cutting off blood flow to the brain, the artery that supplies blood to the brain is on the front side of the neck.

The optics were very bad, but the restraint was not.

He died from a side effect of the drugs he took that reacted to his panic of being restrained. NOT from the restraint itself.

There is a reason why that drug is illegal and this is one of the reasons.

He unintentionally died of suicide by cop, but the cop is not responsible for his illegal drug use.

This whole thing is a scam, just like covid. Targeting the same thing, our economy.


53 posted on 06/04/2020 6:00:41 AM PDT by American in Israel (A wise man's heart directs him to the right, but the foolish mans heart directs him toward the left.)
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To: DoodleDawg

If they violated the law and or policy of course.

That has yet to be proven


54 posted on 06/04/2020 6:09:18 AM PDT by riverrunner
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To: Gay State Conservative

The consensus I’m getting around the net is that the DA really doesn’t want a conviction but a not guilty verdict which would likely further inflame the rioting. But that all hinges on whether he can get this to a trial and jury and verdict before the election.


55 posted on 06/04/2020 6:25:56 AM PDT by Ron H. (Gab.com is back up.)
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To: American in Israel
But it was not an illegal act by police standards, it was and is police protocol to use neck restraint.

Not for nine minutes.

However the presence of the drug does make that form of restraint dangerous. Unfortunately a police officer er struggling with a suspect does not have time to draw blood and wait for a toxicology report to know that the suspect has taken a powerful illegal sedative.

A situation that police face hundreds or thousands of times each day all over the country. Yet they manage not to kill their suspect. Why couldn't these four?

Assuming that form of restraint is illegal is a problem.

I don't think it will be a problem at all. The Minneapolis Police Department will be more than happy to testify that they did not train their officers to used the restraint for more than a short period of time, certainly not for almost nine minutes. Combined with two other officers kneeling on his back. The police brass will not be friends of the officers in this trial.

He did not die from cutting off blood flow to the brain, the artery that supplies blood to the brain is on the front side of the neck.

According to the medical examiner it was a contributing factor.

He unintentionally died of suicide by cop, but the cop is not responsible for his illegal drug use.

You call it suicide. The prosecutor calls it murder. Prosecutor wins.

56 posted on 06/04/2020 6:57:08 AM PDT by DoodleDawg
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To: DoodleDawg

I think maybe you did not understand the article. When you have “excited delirium” you are supposed to fully restrain the person. My GUESS is that they stayed too long on him, but thought Floyd had merely passed out.

My goodness, but Doctors accidentally kill about 250,000 Americans per year. See the Candace Owens video here.


57 posted on 06/04/2020 7:13:34 AM PDT by Penelope Dreadful (And there is Pansies, that's for Thoughts.)
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To: Signalman

How will they get a jury ?


58 posted on 06/04/2020 7:36:19 AM PDT by HollyB (Cv timeline)
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To: Ken H

The body cam videos are now evidence so not subject to FOIA until after trial. The fact that they have not been leaked to the media indicates to me that they are not exculpatory.


59 posted on 06/04/2020 7:42:22 AM PDT by Valpal1
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To: Socon-Econ

Law Enforcement use of force training has been teaching about this for 15 years or more and it’s in the MPD manual.

So Chauvin is presumed to know that prone restraint is dangerous. One of the officers actually is heard asking about repositioning because of ExD and is brushed off.

It’s not hindsight to recognize failure to follow training protocol.


60 posted on 06/04/2020 7:46:10 AM PDT by Valpal1
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