He is going to be found not guilty. If there is any real justice in this country. The trial is going to be very short. First, all they have to do is show the jury the video I posted here. Then have three of the largest jurors do exactly to him what they did to Floyd. For as long as they want. The judge may then just bypass the jury and throw the whole case out of court. Despite all that, officer Chauvin could probably use a little moral support over his mistreatment. If you want to do so, here is the address where you can write him at.
Derik Chauvin
c/o Minnesota Correctional Facility-
Oak Park Heights
5329 Osgood Avenue North
Stillwater, MN 55082
He is not mistreated. He lit the fuse to the whole mess of the last two weeks. His own wife dumped him immediately. Last I heard, when he went to jail, knowing what he had done and what was happening out there, he had to be put on suicide watch 24/7. I cannot work up much pity or sympathy.
If you repeat a lie often enough, others are likely to believe it. Maybe that is what happened to officer Chauvin. It is unfortunate if he believes that. If he in fact does at all. Because he was there. He was the one doing it. He has to know that what he was doing didn't cause Floyd to die. How about this. Instead of going by what the bullshit the media spreads, write him and ask him yourself. Though he obviously has more important things on his mind, maybe he will write you back.
I'll pass. I saw the video and believed my eyes and heard him beg. You get no credit for not knowing someone may have conditions that may prevent them from living though intentional torture, while hand cuffed. All four of those cops, just as culpable morally.
There was no torture. He had refused to get into the police car and the cops simply restrained him to give him a chance to calm down so they could transport him back to the precinct to process the arrest. The guy was six foot seven so what were to alternatives? They could have just tasered him into submission, but knowing what we know now about his poor health and drugs, that would probably have killed him. Alternatively, they could have just used brute force to stuff him kicking and screaming into the back of the police car to take him to the precinct, but that clearly would have been dangerous for everyone. Pinning him down until he gave up hope of escaping and calmed down would have seemed the safest option.
Could have done a lot of things. could have shackled his feet, put a night stick through the cuffs on his hands and drug him into the car. But they did not, and that is why we are here.
The guy was six foot seven, a former football player who earned his living as a bouncer in a nightclub, so using brute force to stuff him into the back seat of the police car while he was struggling would have been dangerous to both the cops and to Floyd. The coroner determined that the cause of death was that his heart stopped beating and there is no rational argument to be made that the knee on his neck or the knee on his hips caused his heart to stopped beating.
And another doctor disagreed. Battle of the "expert witnesses". They will show the video.
There is no other doctor. The alleged private autopsy was a stunt. They didn't have the toxicology report, the organs the medical examiner had cut out or his health history. They claimed Floyd had been in good health, which we now know not to be true, and they acknowledged that they found no physical evidence that he had died from asphyxiation, which they claimed had been the cause of death.
I’m assuming your in good health. If the thug cop placed his knee on your neck for 9 minutes, would you make it?
I am not in such good health, but I have no doubt I would survive. The knee was nowhere near the carotid arteries or the larynx so it did not restrict air to the lungs or blood to the brain. It is no doubt very uncomfortable but not at all dangerous.
The problem with your 'logic' is, it doesn't matter what Floyd's health condition was. Had the cop NOT tortured him to death, he'd still be alive. Hence, the cop committed murder. Logical no?
I find the defense of this crazy murderous cop unbelievable. If you aren't a racist, you most certainly aren't thinking straight. Cop brutality of all races must stop, but people like you want it to continue. Apparently you want to live in a police state.
You are posting nothing but hysterical nonsense. He was not tortured but restrained after making a bizarre escape attempt when police attempted to keep him in the back of the police car.
At the end of the video, you can see Floyd slip out of the police car and he is then pinned down and restrained by the police officers.
In restraining Floyd, these police officer were operating well within the rules laid out in the Minneapolis police manual, which allows cops to choke persons resisting arrest into unconsciousness. There is no rational argument to be made that the manner of restraint led to Floyd's heart stopping.
'The on-line version of the policy manual says, "The unconscious neck restraint shall only be applied … 1. On a subject who is exhibiting active aggression, or; 2. For life saving purposes, or;
3. On a subject who is exhibiting active resistance in order to gain control of the subject; and if lesser attempts at control have been or would likely be ineffective."'
Several police experts said that number appears to be unusually high. "By using this tactic, it's a self-fulfilling tragedy," said one.
www.nbcnews.com
However these police officers chose a safer method of gaining control over Floyd by applying a neck and hip restraint that was not a choke hold. There was, in fact, no safer way of restraining Floyd while he continued to struggle against arrest than the technique used by these officers, and it was a technique that had been in common practice in Minneapolis.
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Minneapolis police used neck restraints at least 237 times during that span [since the beginning of 2015]"
Several police experts said that number appears to be unusually high. "By using this tactic, it's a self-fulfilling tragedy," said one.
www.nbcnews.com
No deaths were attributed to the use of neck restraints by the Minneapolis police during that time.
So why did Floyd die? The autopsy said he died because his heart stopped beating, and it also pointed out that Floyd had both coronary artery disease, which narrows the arteries that feed blood to the heart muscle, and a hypertensive heart, which causes a thickening of the heart muscle and makes it less able to respond to stressful situations. The combination of these two made Floyd a high risk for dying of a heart attack or heart failure in his everyday life and made his heart utterly incapable of meeting the demands Floyd placed on it by continuing to struggle against his arrest.
Clearly the police acted will within the law and the rules of the Minneapolis police department and Floyd died because his body was unable to meet the demands he made on it by continuing to struggle against his arrest. That's the whole story and all the rest is hysterical nonsense fostered by opportunistic politicians and other assorted conmen or conwomen.