Why were the cops there, again? Oh yea, because drug addict criminal Floyd was trying to pass counterfeit currency in a local business.
They'll never be held to account for it, but all those bystanders hooting and hollering, threatening those officers, are just as responsible for Floyd's death as the officers themselves (neither party is as responsible as Floyd himself).
When people approach officers in the middle of making an arrest, that officer has to assume their intentions are hostile. This divides their attention between the subject of the arrest and the bystanders, who could be armed.
Seem like maybe Chauvin's attention being divided had something to do with him not noticing that Floyd was OD'ing?
Why were the cops there, again? Oh yea, because drug addict criminal Floyd was trying to pass counterfeit currency in a local business.
They'll never be held to account for it, but all those bystanders hooting and hollering, threatening those officers, are just as responsible for Floyd's death as the officers themselves (neither party is as responsible as Floyd himself).
When people approach officers in the middle of making an arrest, that officer has to assume their intentions are hostile. This divides their attention between the subject of the arrest and the bystanders, who could be armed.
Seem like maybe Chauvin's attention being divided had something to do with him not noticing that Floyd was OD'ing?