This was a dealer who was dropping his stash on the streets during his arrest; he wasn't going to admit to ANYTHING illegal. 'Hooping' meant basketball; a bullshit lie to explain why he looked strung out. This 'it means its up his ass' take looks stupid as hell.
Does basketball make you LITERALLY foam around the mouth? Here is the part directly from the transcript with the question asked of Floyd:
Kueng: You got foam around your mouth, too?
George Floyd: Yes, I was just hooping earlier.
And you can go look the term "hooping" up, and based on context.. he wasn't playing basketball dude.
http://torontovibe.com/routes-of-administration/ (site that tries to promote "safe drug use", and here they are talking about the ways people can administer drugs, and ta-da.. booty bumping/hooping exists)
Also, foaming at the mouth is caused by one of three things... DRUG OVERDOSE, Seizure, and Rabies... he was obviously not seizing. and he obviously didn't have rabies either.. so that only leaves the one option... DRUG OVERDOSE.
I'm not up to date on the latest ghetto slang though I used to be, but I never heard "hooping" used to refer to baketball. Shooting hoops sure. Urban Dictionary has three references to hooping. The first refers to hula hoops. The second refers to smuggling drugs via the asshole, and the third refers to getting high via the asshole.
This was a dealer who was dropping his stash on the streets during his arrest; he wasn't going to admit to ANYTHING illegal. 'Hooping' meant basketball; a bullshit lie to explain why he looked strung out. This 'it means its up his ass' take looks stupid as hell.
Does basketball make you LITERALLY foam around the mouth? Here is the part directly from the transcript with the question asked of Floyd:
Kueng: You got foam around your mouth, too?
George Floyd: Yes, I was just hooping earlier.
And you can go look the term "hooping" up, and based on context.. he wasn't playing basketball dude.
http://torontovibe.com/routes-of-administration/ (site that tries to promote "safe drug use", and here they are talking about the ways people can administer drugs, and ta-da.. booty bumping/hooping exists)
Also, foaming at the mouth is caused by one of three things... DRUG OVERDOSE, Seizure, and Rabies... he was obviously not seizing. and he obviously didn't have rabies either.. so that only leaves the one option... DRUG OVERDOSE.
https://www.healthline.com/health/foaming-at-the-mouth
How does playing basketball make someone look strung out? That makes no sense. He was freaking because he thought he was ODing - and he was right.
I'm not up to date on the latest ghetto slang though I used to be, but I never heard "hooping" used to refer to baketball. Shooting hoops sure. Urban Dictionary has three references to hooping. The first refers to hula hoops. The second refers to smuggling drugs via the asshole, and the third refers to getting high via the asshole.