Sounds to ME like they're saying the guy got agitated and upset and overloaded his already unhealthy and drugged-up heart. Which is true, and quite frankly, the agitation was his own fault.
no the county medical examiner explicitly said it was a homicide, and the fault of the method of police officers applying restraint.
The restraint itself has caused a death in Minneapolis prior to Floyd. it cost Minneapolis $3 million that time.
Floyd isn't the first person who has died after being pinned down by a Minneapolis police officer. In 2010, 28-year-old David Smith died after an officer pinned him down with a knee to the back for about four minutes. The city settled a lawsuit for $3 million, said Robert Bennett, a Minneapolis attorney who represented Smith's family.
As part of the settlement, the city agreed to train officers on the proper use of force, Bennett said. He doesn't know whether that training ever took place.
Officer Chauvin had to know about that death cause md by pressure on the back - so it should be easy to concluded that Chauvin wanted to see Floyd die because there was a cop on Floyd’s back and Chauvin added his knee to the neck just to make sure.
Minneapolis settled for $27 million this time as it is apparent that the City did not learn a fucking thing when it’s police officers kilked David Smith off camera.
This should be mandatory reading for every Trump voter who joins the demonizing if the black victims of police brutality every time it happens because they cannot tolerate the thought that Black Lives Matter..
Minneapolis Police Were Sued A Decade Ago In Similar Restraint Case May 29, 20208:26 PM ET
In recent years, many police departments have trained officers to be alert to the risk of what's called "positional asphyxia," the possibility that prolonged restraint of a suspect in a prone position can be deadly. It's a lesson some in the Minneapolis Police Department already learned once, 10 years ago.
Minneapolis paid out $3 million to settle a lawsuit over the 2010 death of David Smith, 28. The young black man was mentally ill, his attorneys said, and died after officers Tasered him and then held him facedown on the floor for several minutes. One of them kept a knee on his back even after he stopped responding to questions.
This week, many police on social media condemned the video of Floyd's arrest, saying they'd been trained never to knee a suspect in the neck, or maintain pressure on someone's back longer than necessary.
As for me & mine, we have been trained 1 knee on the ground sucked up to the arrestee's body, while the other knee is in a position not directly on them, but able to apply pressure on the midback if they become resistive. I reiterate, never have I been trained knee to neck.
We are also trained to get people, as soon as safe and feasible, up off the ground and into a car, or at the very least into the recovery position on their side. There are several opportunities in this video to do just that, but it never happens, and a man dies.
6:53 PM · May 26, 2020
Stoughton says one of the most important failures in the Minneapolis video from Monday was the fact that other officers did not intervene or even appear to say anything to Chauvin as he knelt on Floyd's neck.
Walter Katz, an expert in police reform and oversight with Arnold Ventures, says he's even more dismayed by Chauvin's indifference to the anguished complaints from bystanders.
"People were yelling at him as to what he was doing, and he continued to do so," Katz says. "To me that is not a training issue. To me that is a reflection of a culture issue."
He says questions of tactics matter less here than the officers' attitude toward the person being restrained.
"If there's a belief that some members of the community deserve less dignity than others, these types of things will keep on happening," Katz says.
