According to the body cam footage, Floyd was babbling loudly the whole time the knee was on his neck. You can’t do that if you’re choking, obviously. How do you say “I can’t breathe” if you can’t breathe anyway? Likely he felt a loss of oxygen to his system because he was overdosing.
Very good point, Well-reasoned and logical. Maybe if I relay it to people I encounter the same way that you’ve relayed it to me, it will begin to chip away at that cast-in-stone mindset that so many of them have.
Also, he began saying he couldn’t breath early in the confrontation. Long before he went to the ground.
Babbling the whole time, except for those last two or three minutes when he was unresponsive and not breathing.
I contend the knee was on his back-—high up, NEAR his neck—BUT NOT on the neck.