“That was quick. Guilty.”
The underlying timeline was about nine minutes.
I haven’t closely followed the case but I believe it depends on if the paramedic had the time, equipment and the mental cohesiveness (and not just the skill) to save George Floyd from dying from a drug overdose.
Does anyone else have an opinion and an evidence trail backing that opinion?
I think you run into the Ronald Opus problem here: even if he would have died from a drug overdose, hastening his death by so much as a second makes it murder.
There’s no need to prove Floyd could have been saved by that particular individual with the equipment on hand; they need only prove that Floyd would have lived even a second longer if not for the actions of Derek Chauvin, and that those actions were not justified under the circumstances.
I’m not saying it’s right or wrong, I’m just saying that from a legal standpoint, Chauvin is in a very tight spot. Normally he’d be protected in a case like this as an officer of the law performing his duty, but we’re living in strange times.