And he will be convicted.
But.....
For the wrong reasons.
The entire defense is, I believe the wrong way to go.
There is no way to defend squatting on another human being's neck for over nine minutes after they are subdued, while the public calls out for you to show some basic humanity as the man pleads for his life and calls out to his mother.
Nor does racism explain this, this is not plotted racism, Chauvin is working with two nonwhite officers, he knows he is being recorded by the public with their phones, the public is calling out, openly condemning him as he does this, and yet he just stares out blankly and continues smashing down on Mr. Floyd's neck.
The demented look on Chauvin's face reveals what the real defense and plea should have been.
Diminished mental capacity.
That he was not in his right mind, not in a rational state probably due to the stresses of being a police officer over a long period of time.
Some form of PTSD sending him into a psychotic episode.
That should have been his defense.
That does not mean he walks free, but it might mean the right sentence for what actually happened.
Hey, if you were given a choice, would you choose to get pumped to 11 ng/ML of Fentanyl or have someone pin you to the ground with their knee on your neck for 8 minutes?
Not sure what any drugs he might have taken have to do with anything. Medical experts have already said drugs had no part in his death.
7 ng/ML of Fentanyl can be lethal. He was walking around saying he couldn’t breath before any cop touched him. When you OD on Fentanyl it’s because it restricts your breathing. He died from the drugs. There was no tissue damage from blunt force trauma on his neck.
And all Chauvin needs is reasonable doubt.
The medical examiner and expert medical witness for the Prosecution testified they had signed death certificates for overdose victims at 3ng........
The medical examiner said it was homicide.
The ME doesn't seen to realize that it takes just
10-20 seconds of a full neck compression to shut a person down, yet the trial productid evidence that he was still awake and conscious for about 7 minutes, and photos produced shows Chauvin kneeling onto the shoulders and back of the neck.
Nobody said it was full neck compression. Restricted blood flow takes longer to kill.
Oh dear you didn't keep up with the flow of information in recent months.
Restricted blood flow would have caused him to pass out in 10-20 seconds, (this was pointed out in the trial) but he stayed awake for around 7 minutes, you are so far off on this.
Floyd from the moment police arrived at his vehicle was sleeping, difficult to wake him up, then hear him complain his
breathing difficulty while still in the vehicle, he complains several more times of breathing difficulty, stumble around, acts like he is not all there, oh and
RESISTED the police a lot the time,
all signs pointing to drug overdose.
This was long before Chauvin started kneeing him.