Given that he was handcuffed I almost certainly wouldn't have put my knee on his neck.I would have taken other steps to control him.
For extra credit, tell us how many times you have subdued a human animal that large and out of his mind.
More than a few times. There were many times when the aides couldn't handle a patient alone
And as for combat soldiers, the exquisite difference between your ER experience, and theirs, is that soldiers also work knowing that they might be just as dead as the guy they saw die at ANY second.
That's true.However,do a little research and you'll find that ER staff...particular in big cities...are often threatened *and* assaulted.I could tell of my own experiences but won't.
Tired of medical people claiming “war zone” experience, and “hero” and “front line” status. If it isn't in suffocating heat, numbing cold that turns your toes and nose black, dusty choking urban chalk dust... and YOU might be one of the dead ones any second, and it goes on for days or weeks, and you can't go home at the end of a shift... it ain't a war zone or a front line.
I never claimed to be a hero and never would.I know that my experiences,although vivid and sometimes frightening,don't come close to what guys experienced in WWII,Korea,Vietnam.Iraq or Afghanistan.But,as I said above,my experiences weren't all skittles and beer.
Chauvin put his knee on the ground, trapping Floyd's head beneath his shinbone but not putting pressure on his airway - precisely as the Minneapolis Police training manual taught him to do.
The state has no case, but will likely convict him anyway because BLM opinion demands it.