Everything he did was completely legitimate? WTF. Floyd was handcuffed with his hands behind his back. WTF was he going to do? How was he a threat? Chavin had a stun gun, a night stick, a pistol, and Floyd didn't even have use of his arms. I mean is Chavin that much of a damn ***** that he was still afraid for his life? Flippin bullshit. Chavin either killed him on purpose or he is dumber than a box of rocks, Either is punishable by significant jail time.
FOUR policemen who were trained to handle difficult to handle people could not get him into a squad car. Did it ever occur to you that they didnt know how much drugs he had eaten?
Man, I'm so glad people like you are experts in policing and all. We need more people like you!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daryl_Gates
Oh yeah, the superhuman argument. Nothing more than a racist trope, and if it were the case, let his ass run around with his hands behind his back until he trips or passes out. I had a friend that, while handcuffed, knocked out three cops cold. But he was a monster, and they were in the elevator together, and that was after they knocked his ass out with a nightstick and got him in the car. If those punk ass small town cops could get a 300 pound plus beast in the car and to the hospital, then Chavin and his buddies could have got Floyd in the car. Because I promise you, Floyd was nothing compared to my friend. Floyd was 5' 11" and 190 pounds. My friend was 6"6" and pushing 300 pounds. Give me a damn break.
Not just the "superhuman" argument. Former Los Angeles police chief Daryl Gates had this to say about black people:
His [Gates] racist response to concerns about excessive force by police employing "
choke holds". In 1982, Gates attributed several deaths of black people held in choke holds to the theory that "
blacks might be more likely to die from chokeholds because their arteries do not open as fast as they do in 'normal people'".
[29] In his autobiography, Gates said that he had been misinterpreted and meant that black people were more predisposed to vascular conditions and therefore
less likely to have normally functioning arteries.
[30]
Actually anybody can run out into traffic on meth, it doesn't matter whether you're black white or Hispanic... even Asians can do that
* Did you know that?
it's standard police procedure to keep someone whacked out on drugs pinned to the ground until medical arrives and you're not supposed to let them get up just because they finally stopped fighting
people whacked out on drugs do crazy things when you let them up
* I'm not surprised you didn't know that
I don't suppose you've arrested anyone working at Starbucks?
Well first, he wasn't on meth, he was on heroin. Not like that makes a difference to the cops. But here is the thing, Chavin had to know he was killing the guy. He had to, or at least a "reasonable person" would have known, and the crowd was telling him as much. The dude was clueless. He either was too stupid to know, or he was too indifferent to care. In my book, either one deserves jail time.
But now to my friend, who passed away a couple years ago from all those years of hard drinking. He was pulled over for DUI. He was driving a vintage Mustang. He was calm and cooperative, and nicely asked the cop not to have his car towed, that he could have a friend come and pick it up from the roadside. Well the cop had a ride-along with him, for whatever reason. The cop told him that he was going to have the car towed and there was nothing he could do about it. My friend, again quite calmly, told him that he would knock out the plexiglass that separated the back seat from the front, and come up there and kick both their asses. They laughed at him, and I quote, "Come on big boy, lets see what you got". Boom, one hit and the plexiglass gives way. The ride-along looked like he was trying to climb into the glovebox of the car. Smash, he kicks out the back seat window and proceeds to try and open the door.
The cops are still taunting him, driving down the road at high speed and weaving back and forth telling him to jump out. They call for back-up, and meet the back-up and stop the car. My friend opens the door and is hammered by a nightstick, knocks him out cold. When he wakes up he is on the way to the hospital. Once inside three cops tell him to get in an elevator to go to the second floor, he tells them he is not getting in that elevator, he knows they are going to rough him up as soon as the elevator door closes. But they force him in. When the elevator doors open up on the second floor he is standing there,still handcuffed, and three cops are knocked out cold, lying around him.
Now this is the 1970's. All charges were dropped, including the DUI. Justice in the hills of western North Carolina is not much different today.
