You forgot if he did not resist arrest he would have died in custody from an overdose.
And if my Grandmother had wheels she would be a wagon.
If is a wonderful word. But it should always be used judiciously. In this case, arguing If this, than that would have happened is just proof that Chauvin acted improperly.
We were talking about law and fact. The fact is that the Medical Examiners, all three, ruled it a Homicide. Now, we have established as fact that Floyd died as a result of actions of another.
Now, we get to the law. The death could be ruled as justified. But there is a problem with that. First, Chauvin violated procedure to do what he did. The procedure is written down. When you break the letter of a rule, or law, you have got to present a damned good argument as to why you should be forgiven. The obvious analogy is you broke a window, destroying private property. But you did so because there was a child trapped in a hot car. You broke the letter of the law, but you won’t be prosecuted because you had a good reason for doing so.
Chauvin was sacrificed. I’ve said this many times before. You can search for it and you’ll find it. But he was not sacrificed to the Leftists. The BLM activists. None of them. He was sacrificed to the average American Citizen.
Chauvin had a score of complaints for the same type of actions. Excessive force. And some of them were upheld. In other words they found that the complaint was justified.
But nothing was ever done to change his behavior. It was a scene out of Mad Magazine. Bad boy Chauvin as they pat him on the back. I’d be willing to bet that as they told him that he was found to have used excessive force they told him they would have done the same thing. I wouldn’t bet much. But I would have no trouble believing it.
But on paper, Chauvin was doing what he wasn’t supposed to. So he was thrown to the proverbial wolves to uphold the illusion that the rest of the cops didn’t do that sort of thing. The speech by the Chief could be written by anyone who has seen this at least three times, and we’ve seen it more that that haven’t we? The department is shocked, saddened, and sickened by the actions of this individual. We want to make it a point that these actions do not represent the hundreds of fine officers who are doing the job properly. We have turned this over to the District Attorney to see if Criminal Charges are warranted.
The speech is always the same. And the truth is that Chauvin was sacrificed to placate the masses, not the BLM. Because if the average person ever realized that the police lie regularly, then the curtain slips and the Wizard is exposed.
In the end however, even with Chauvin being thrown to the wolves, the truth is that he did violate the letter of the policy. And worse he did so on camera. The Autopsy results were that he was the cause of the death.
Perhaps Floyd would have died twenty minutes later if Chauvin had stuffed him into a car. Perhaps he would have lived another year before dying of an overdose. Either way, that is not what killed him THEN.
So all the complaints, and all the what ifs do is show that Chauvin did kill Floyd. And he was convicted.
