Posted on 02/07/2022 9:55:41 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — George Floyd died because his breathing was restricted as he was restrained while handcuffed and facedown, a lung expert testified Monday at the federal trial of three former Minneapolis police officers charged with violating Floyd’s civil rights.
Dr. David Systrom, a pulmonologist and critical care physician at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston, said Floyd’s upper airway was compressed by Officer Derek Chauvin’s knee, while his position on the hard asphalt with his hands cuffed behind his back did not allow his lungs to expand, cutting off the flow of oxygen.
“Oxygen delivered to the heart and brain is critical to survival,” Systrom said.
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Ok. You win the internet. Have a cookie.
First sentence. I know that’s a lot to read. :)
That's not what the coroner or the report testified--it said the knee was on Floyd's "back." The defense lawyer pointed this out after the prosecutor claimed the knee was on Floyd's "neck."
The next time the prosecutor referred to this detail in the proceedings, he weasled his words--tacitly admitting he'd been caught lying--and now described the knee as on Floyd's "neck area."
I simulated this situation over a year ago, (with an unnamed assistant). I was 66 yrs old, 185 lbs, with a considerably smaller and weaker neck. On a wood floor.
Uncomfortable? Oh yeah. But you pump air with your diaphram, not with your rib cage. Harder to breathe? Yeah, but I could breathe. I little painful on the chest muscles in that area, and a little sore there for a couple of days.
After hearing about the knee actually being on the right upper area of the left shoulder blade, I thought that would definately have been less stress than directly on the lower neck.
Chauvin weighed about 160 lbs. He was in a 4 point stance. There probably wasn’t more than 60 lbs on the man’s back.
(Disclaimer: I don’t do drugs or booze, so my comparison is unfair. Sorry.)
Why bother with Federal Charges?
BLM (Burn, Loot, and Murder) members are looking for the people that stole all their money. KARMA!
So you are saying Fat Floyd had a few comorbidities.
He was overdosed- severely overdosed- a coronor stated he woudl have died at home had he not been arrested because he had so much fentanyl and other drugs in his system- plus yes, he had 3 serious heart issues apparently to boot= and he had covid evidently or just got over it or something i believe-
Floyd was a walking cadaver who did himself in- but who’s death was blamed falsely on a white cop for the sake of inciting riots and stoking racism and victimhood-
Bullsh*t. Fentanyl causes breathing problems. Putting a knee on the back of someone's neck does not cause breathing problems. People have recreated this experiment several times and no one died.
George Floyd died because he overdosed on Fentanyl.
It’s hard to say fentanyl overdose.
I can rest easier now
And the fentanyl...
11 nanograms per milliliter, fatal.
ummm, yes
(I think you did not understand my point)
No one trust the lying mediclowns any more.
"Chauvin was our off-duty police for almost the entirety of the 17 years that we were open," Santamaria said. "They were working together at the same time, it's just that Chauvin worked outside and the security guards were inside...the two overlapped working security on popular music nights within the last year...""My friend sent me (the video) and said this is your guy who used to work for you and I said, 'It's not him.' And then they did the closeup and that's when I said, 'Oh my God, that's him,'" Santamaria said. "I didn't recognize George as one of our security guys because he looked really different lying there like that."
" Santamaria wondered if Monday's incident could have turned out differently if Chauvin recognized Floyd from their days working at her club.‘What if he could’ve just said “Hey, man, you and I worked together at Maya’s place. Remember me?”’ she said."
I tell you this, unconditionally -- the irrational drive behind hate crime legistlation is that history is only written by the winners. And I can prove it. Witness your Democrat comrades specifically complicit in abandoning American citizens in Afghanistan, just so that Biden's Taliban conspirators could paint over Big Gorge in Kabul! Can Big Gorge covered in white paint breathe? Or perhaps the Taliban leaders should also be subpoenaed to this kangaroo court and prosecuted for their lack of obesiance!
I hearby move for an immediate Dismissal with prejudice, I move further that the state's verdict be vacated with retrial, I move further that a special prosecutor be appointed to determine why the owner of El Nuevo Rodeo was never called as a material witness in the state trial."
We agree, correct?
Yes! friendly fire lol
Good thing they only supplied me with a nerf gun!
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