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To: Gay State Conservative

I predict Chauvin will say he didn’t have his full weight on Floyd and that he thought his pleas were crying wolf. If you can talk, you can breathe, so he could reasonably make that claim. But just kneeling there with hands in pockets on top of him for so long once he stopped struggling is tough to explain away.


26 posted on 05/29/2020 4:36:30 AM PDT by Callahan
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I’ve seen countless videos of blacks being arrested and when taken down many yell..”I can’t breath”...ever since that other guy died. So it’s crying wolf and certainly would lead any officer to think it’s another wolf call.

I’ve still not determined about the knee hold....though it’s obviously very disturbing to watch, I just think their could be other factors as well that led to his death.


41 posted on 05/29/2020 4:52:37 AM PDT by caww
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To: Callahan

Nobody likes to be arrested and handcuffed and nobody likes to be manhandled.


91 posted on 05/29/2020 7:29:40 AM PDT by skinndogNN
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To: Callahan
"If you can talk, you can breathe."

My real life incident: I was in biker bar some years back and some guy jumped me from behind and we went down due to momentum. A waitress walking by went down with us. Being the closet to her, she put me in a genuine chock hold. As my friends were pulling the Cholo off me, I could barely turn my head to her and managed to sputter out, "Stacy, it's me". She recognized me and let go.

I could barely breathe when I managed those few words. A couple more seconds and I probably would have passed out. So yes, you can have very restricted airflow and still manage a few words. The above all happened in seconds, unlike the officer's knee on Floyd for minutes.

From the video and photos, I believe the knee was cutting off the carotid artery to the brain along with some pressure on the trachea (windpipe). With an honest Medical Examiner, we'll find out the cause of death in this incident. Until then, the mobs (rioters) will loot and burn down their own towns.

115 posted on 05/29/2020 8:53:46 AM PDT by A Navy Vet (I'm not Islamophobic - I'm Islamonauseous. Also LGBTQxyz nauseous.)
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