Clear airway-— and no carotid compression. Without fentanyl O/D self administered he was in NO danger of suffocation. None, not even neural compression. Side of the neck- not front. Plenty of pictures show THAT but were purposely ignored in evidence, as were the toxicology which does NOT lie- the labs were 99 times the Lethal Dose 50 (that is 1/2 of a lethal dose of fentanyl) in this walking corpse drug addict criminal’s blood chemistry.
The guy was experiencing life threatening respiratory distress. The knee on the neck couldn’t have helped, regardless of whether his carotid artery or airway was compressed. And it was completely unnecessary. They should have sat him up against a wall and let him try to regain his breath. He might have still died anyway, but they didn’t know that at the time. They didn’t know about the fentanyl. All they knew was that he was having trouble breathing. The guy’s unresponsive and they left him on his stomach with his hands cuffed behind his back and a knee on his neck? Come on. It was poorly handled any way you look at it.