It’s really not about whether their actions directly caused his death. It’s about their complete LACK of action while he died. They stood there with their hands in their pockets doing NOTHING while people even shouted from the crowd that he was in distress. While he BEGGED for his life, they did NOTHING. NOTHING. Now you can argue about what the specific charge should be. But in the end, they FAILED. They didn’t care. And that really is the biggest problem. Too many cops just don’t give a damn.
He was dying of a fentanyl ovedose. Keep him calm until the ambulance gets there. Not much else you can do.
I agree with you.
I am agreeing with you and that may not be popular. I will add something, the policy in most metro-areas is the cops carry narcon for fentanyl distress and they are trained to recognize it. If the MPD did not provide the narcon and training the cops may not have understood what was going on. Especially the rookie cop.
What were they supposed to do?
He refused to get in a vehicle that could have taken him to the hospital, even with his mother pleading for him to get in the car and even though that would have kept him upright. The way they kept him down wasn’t pretty but it appears restraint, as ugly as it looked, wasn’t the cause of death; drug overdose combined with covid was.
I agree with you. If the cops had Narcan and failed to administer it or recognize the OD situation...
there’s a big payout heading to the Floyd family.
looks like he died and they didn't budge, but nothing they did killed him....
its just a ridiculous occurrence, all because we have so much insane drug use and because sometimes the cops don't consider optics ...
Thank you for your compassion.
Thats why I have repeatedly said that Chauvin should have been charged with criminal negligence not murder.