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fskfsk 18 points ago +18 / -0

What happens now is, whenever police arrest someone, they start shouting "I can't breathe!" as loud is they can. This means police just ignore it when someone claims they "can't breathe".

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Freshcope 6 points ago +6 / -0

If you can talk you can breathe.

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IamM 3 points ago +3 / -0

Not necessarily. Continuously yes, but one can do a "last gasp" of sorts and turn that into words.

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sickofaltspin 1 point ago +2 / -1

One of the things that pisses me off so much about this case is the incorrect info from thr peanut gallery.

We spent 20 years training the problem with that phrase and it is being undone.

You can make short bursts and still be not getting enough oxygen to sustain life, but the knee wasnt choking him.

Sadly Floyd is gonna have a ton more dead bodies that are his fault.

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HuggableBear 1 point ago +2 / -1

People need to stop perpetuating this myth.

Being able to talk means that you have some air left that you can force out, not that you can bring new air in.

Your lungs work like a balloon. You can squeeze them and create quite a bit of positive pressure (which is how you speak), but very little negative pressure (which is how you breathe).

When your airway is obstructed, you can still force out enough air for a couple of sentences, but that's it. You can't get any more air in and you die.

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thekindlyman555 1 point ago +1 / -0

This is true if you're talking about your chest being compressed and unable to expand.

But if there is an obstruction that is blocking your windpipe and hence your vocal cords, then you would likely be unable to make any sound at all, or only very quiet raspy sounds by a slow trickle of air around the blockage.

If the neck being compressed was what was obstructing his breathing then he shouldn't have been able to shout anything. If there is not enough of a blockage to prevent you from expelling air out powerfully enough to shout then there was not enough blockage to prevent you from intaking air either. If it was chest compression then the neck press wasn't what killed him and therefore the media narrative is still wrong and Chauvin's knee on his neck still wasn't murder.

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HuggableBear 2 points ago +2 / -0

Again, not true. Imagine again a balloon. Blow it up. Now pull on the neck of the balloon to make it do that high pitched shriek. You can squeeze the ballon to force out more air, but you're not going to be able to pull more air in.

It's about relative pressures, man. Air is a compressible fluid. Squeeze it hard enough and the pressure can increase to many times normal and force open an open an obstruction. But when you try to pull air in using negative pressure, the pressure differential can only go so high because the outside pressure isn't high enough to force the blockage away.

It's why blocked pipes are more easily cleared by blowing them out instead of vacuuming them.

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Crlsniper 15 points ago +15 / -0

So he’s pretty much saying the 9 mins with Floyd wouldn’t ha e killed him because the cop did it to someone else for twice that with no issues.

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DrCowboyPresident 9 points ago +9 / -0

He's guilty of murder because it looks mean.

That's the logic.

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Bigsweaties 6 points ago +6 / -0

Brains of a gnat. Poor teen. He ded twice

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Siteless_Vagrant 4 points ago +4 / -0

17 minutes, you say?

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koyima 3 points ago +3 / -0

You only know about Floyd's past because pedes forced it down your throat

You still think Floyd died after 9 mins, when you just posted that someone did 17

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CovfefeVideo 2 points ago +2 / -0

That Deep Though Pose™ profile pic...

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wethedownvoted 2 points ago +2 / -0

"The most important numbers you will hear in this trial are nine, two, nine" -- Jerry W. Blackwell, failed prosecutor

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monkeycat2010 1 point ago +1 / -0

One dimensional thinking. I have found that people like this only have the ability to process information on one level of cognition. The ability to "rubic's cube" think through issues is beyond their ability.

Case in point, I saw an article about putting a freeway through a poor primarily industrial community as being racist. The author of the article posited that the reason for doing it was racism and to destroy the neighborhood. The author could not fathom the years of planning, land testing, and logistics involved before even deciding on where to put a freeway is required and not "oh there is a black neighborhood, lets put it there" decision. 1 dimensional thinking.

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MAGA16062015 1 point ago +1 / -0

For the people talking about 9 and 20 minutes just know that youre comparing kneeling on someones back vs their neck. Just sayin.

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PraiseBeToScience [S] 1 point ago +1 / -0

You're right - the back is worse, because it restricts lung expansion. The side of the neck does nothing.

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MAGA16062015 1 point ago +1 / -0

Not a doctor, wouldnt know.

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acasper 1 point ago +1 / -0

It’s funny because we know both pieces of information.

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redinmn 1 point ago +1 / -0

You forget, math is racist. Just because 17 is longer than 9 doesnt mean anything to the left.

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RenaissanceOfHope 1 point ago +1 / -0

Is this rumor about Chauvin true, and what happened to the teen?