it doesn’t matter.....the cop still kneeled on his neck for 8 minutes.
oh...itll matter after cross examination....
They both worked at the same night club. Bet they had differences that spilled over from that relationship. Bottom line, this resulted from something personal and had nothing to do with big bad white cop vs. poor innocent black guy minding his own bid’ness.
Agree. It doesn’t matter because what the cop did was wrong. Two wrongs don’t make it right
True, but had he been a normally healthy man NOT ON DRUGS (fentanyl and Meth!) (not exactly “weed”) would he have died?
“it doesn’t matter.....the cop still kneeled on his neck for 8 minutes.”
I think the cop went too far, BUT he will have a strong defense. Minneapolis police department policy ALLOWS officers to place their knee on the rear or side of a resisting suspect’s neck to keep them subdued. As long as they don’t use a “choke hold” they are permitted to use a Conscious neck restraint. They can even use an unconscious neck restraint (intended to put the suspect to sleep) in certain circumstances. Both of those are considered non-lethal force options. (Choke hold is considered lethal force and only allowable to prevent death or great bodily injury, etc.)
The counter to that will be that the guy was saying “I can’t breathe,” but as a brother of a police officer, I know that he says many guys, particulary since the Eric Garner thing, now say “I can’t breathe” regularly when being arrested.
I still think the cop went too far, but depending on the jury he gets, he may be acquitted, especially when you consider the official autopsy results.
it doesn’t matter.....the cop still kneeled on his neck for 8 minutes.
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All we ever hear about is where the cop’s knee was — with nobody knowing how much pressure was actually applied. The St. Floyd fan club wants to convict the cop of first degree murder based on the video alone.
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