GHook20
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Ellison was a bad Congressman and even a worse AG. The man has shown he has no problem ignoring the law if it suits his ideology. He has always been a race-baiting partisan guy.Such is why it doesn't necessarily exonerate him, however it changes how he should be charged, Chauvin appears to have had ample reason to restrain Floyd, however he clearly appears to have overdone it, further he should have from ample years of street experience, realized he was dealing with a serious drug reaction of some kind, Floyd was slurring speech, agitated, and combative upon first contact, or just after first contact. I wonder if Floyd stupidly swallowed something tainted with fentanyl just before coming into contact with the cops, perhaps he saw them coming and he ate something and it took sometime for it to metabolize and kill him...Was that before or after the lasted two body cam came out? It tells a different story.Need to correct my comment and rephrase.It is tragic he died, but to say the cops were over the line or did things wrong is not shown on this tape. Rather it appears that a Floyd was high on something. He resisted the entire time. He refused to get in the squad car and he was acting neurotic.
Once again the leftist and black community is holding up a deeply troubled and bad guy as a martyr.
The cops didn’t do anything wrong until the one cop kept his knee on the back of Floyd’s neck when he was handcuffed on his stomach. It is very understandable to want to restraint the high and erratic Floyd, but there could have been better method.
I’ve talked to a few cops about this and they all told me same thing - the cops treatment of Floyd was excessive
Prior to this, watching the video that started the riots, it looked like a guru who was cooperating and acting rationale. Watch the body cam and it shows a different picture.
Either way there was no justification for the chaos.
Before, but what I heard explicitly was that the amount of time the officer knelled on Floyd's neck was too long. I don't know how the new videos change that.
Agree totally. And I think Ellison overcharged as well. I think this is a manslaughter case. I still wouldn't be surprised to see the cop getting railroaded and a conviction charge being the outcome.