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Are you a cop?... you don't know what he was trained to do... you just have talking points memorized....That’s just it. He was not doing the job as he was instructed. The written policy showed what Chauvin was supposed to do. They spent time and money teaching him that policy and certifying that he had been trained.
It’s the way you think he should be allowed to do the job. But that isn’t the way he was taught. It isn’t the way he was trained.
You said you were a Marine. I was a Soldier. I was a Combat Engineer. We were taught how to do things. Explosives are things with a lot of rules. I was told that those rules were written in blood. The blood of the poor bastards who died to learn the lesson.
You saw the trial. The problem is that so did the jury. You appear to think everyone lied. This is a bit of a conundrum. Because if someone lied, then the Defense should have no problem finding people who would tell the truth.
There should have been a parade of cops who would testify that Chauvin did exactly what they were trained to do. There wasn’t.
But even if you argue Chauvin was right. That being right stopped when Floyd lost consciousness. At that time Chauvin was trained to start helping the patient. He didn’t follow his training. When they couldn’t find a pulse. He continued kneeling.
So even if you think he was right and doing the job properly. You have to admit that continuing to perform an action he knew to be dangerous after Floyd became unresponsive was wrong.