Oldestyle
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So the drugs that he had in his system don't play into the equation of what killed George Floyd? How he resisted arrest prior to being brought to the ground doesn't deserve consideration? If someone has ingested a large enough quantity of drugs that behavior is abnormal then it's totally fair to ask what else those drugs may have caused. As for Floyd being violent? Did you watch the video? He's fighting those officers who are trying to get him into the back of that squad car. That's a very large man who's very out of it on Meth and Fentanyl and he does NOT want to go to jail!The cop murdered him. End of story. Everything else is irrelevant. Floyd being violent is fake news. Like most of what you know.Unless you think that all Police should know that taking large amounts of Fentanyl can cause respiratory failure and that all Police should be somehow able to diagnose what drugs a suspect that they are arresting are on...then yes...it actually DOES excuse the LEO's actions!Floyd clearly earned himself a Darwin Award.
But, that doesn't excuse the LEO's action.
When they asked George Floyd what he was "on" it's rather obvious that they know he's all fucked up on drugs. He's resisting arrest. He's refusing to get into the patrol car. He's claiming claustrophobia and shortness of breath. So they take him to the ground and hold him down. Unless you really believe that those officers were trying to kill George Floyd and not simply restrain him...then what you should come away from that video with is the very real possibility that it was the drugs that Floyd took and his frenzied resistance to being arrested that caused his demise...not just the knee on his neck! It's very possible that George Floyd might have died if nobody was kneeling on his neck or any other part of his body!