He said the restraint contributed to his death, but since he didn’t die of strangulation or asphyxiation, then clearly he was not prevented from breathing by the cop’s knee.
That implies that the restraint did something else, like elevate stress or anxiety levels.
That’s not murder. In fact, it was reported that he claimed to have breathing difficulties while standing up, and said he had claustrophobia and that’s why he didn’t want to get into the cop car.
It sounds like the combination of stress, intoxication, and bad health was too much for him. We’ll know more after the second autopsy though.
No, it's murder 3rd degree. The maneuver was dangerous, even in city guidelines define it as such. It was used for an excessive period of time after the perp had gone unresponsive, contravening city guidelines to only use such maneuvers on perps actively resisting arrest, not passively laying on the ground.
In Minnesota, this is basically what Murder 3rd degree is about : performing a dangerous act that results in death, without intent to kill. All components are there, regardless if the knee itself injured George or not.
Tony Timpa died in an extremely similar way to Floyd, and those officers received no charges. The reason being: the hold was legitimate and not lethal in normal circumstances, but the victim had extraordinary health complications that made nonlethal holding methods effectively lethal.
Chauvin performed a potentially lethal holding method, but the method by which it's lethal is by preventing the held from breathing, thus suffocating them. The autopsy revealed suffocation was not the cause of death.
He's going to get charged anyways, because certain groups riot when they don't get blood when the media tells them they should want blood.
Uh ? The medical examiner is pretty clear the restraint did contribute to the death. Where are you getting this "didn't happen" shit ?
The Murder 3rd charge is literally based on it.
Uh ? The Medical Examiner says otherwise.
He said the restraint contributed to his death, but since he didn’t die of strangulation or asphyxiation, then clearly he was not prevented from breathing by the cop’s knee.
That implies that the restraint did something else, like elevate stress or anxiety levels.
That’s not murder. In fact, it was reported that he claimed to have breathing difficulties while standing up, and said he had claustrophobia and that’s why he didn’t want to get into the cop car.
It sounds like the combination of stress, intoxication, and bad health was too much for him. We’ll know more after the second autopsy though.
No, it's murder 3rd degree. The maneuver was dangerous, even in city guidelines define it as such. It was used for an excessive period of time after the perp had gone unresponsive, contravening city guidelines to only use such maneuvers on perps actively resisting arrest, not passively laying on the ground.
In Minnesota, this is basically what Murder 3rd degree is about : performing a dangerous act that results in death, without intent to kill. All components are there, regardless if the knee itself injured George or not.
Tony Timpa died in an extremely similar way to Floyd, and those officers received no charges. The reason being: the hold was legitimate and not lethal in normal circumstances, but the victim had extraordinary health complications that made nonlethal holding methods effectively lethal.
Chauvin performed a potentially lethal holding method, but the method by which it's lethal is by preventing the held from breathing, thus suffocating them. The autopsy revealed suffocation was not the cause of death.
He's going to get charged anyways, because certain groups riot when they don't get blood when the media tells them they should want blood.