The full video shows it clearly isn't racially motivated.
George has two friends with him (both black), who are also trying to calm him down.
His behavior gets more and more erratic over the 18 minutes and his speech is making less and less sense.
The guess is he swallowed the fentanyl when the cops pulled up because it was an heroic amount to just take and then drive around! So he was basically a dead man checking out.
The cops were moving between trying to arrest him and trying to help him. They get him into the car - he's resisting, and then he begs them to let him lie down on the floor. They do that but pin him down to stop him getting up and being a danger to himself and others.
They had called him an ambulance and it turned up just too late - though what chance they would have had of saving him, I don't really know.
The full video shows it clearly isn't racially motivated.
George has two friends with him (both black), who are also trying to calm him down.
His behavior gets more and more erratic over the 18 minutes and his speech is making less and less sense.
The guess is he swallowed the fentanyl when the cops pulled up, and the bag burst, because it was an heroic amount to just take and then drive around! So he was basically a dead man checking out.
The cops were moving between trying to arrest him and trying to help him. They get him into the car - he's resisting, and then he begs them to let him lie down on the floor. They do that but pin him down to stop him getting up and being a danger to himself and others.
They had called him an ambulance and it turned up just too late - though what chance they would have had of saving him, I don't really know.
The full video shows it clearly isn't racially motivated.
George has two friends with him (both black), who are also trying to calm him down.
His behavior gets more and more erratic over the 18 minutes and his speech is making less and less sense.
The guess is he swallowed the fentanyl when the cops pulled up, and the bag burst, because it was an heroic amount to just take and then drive around! So he was basically a dead man checking out.
The cops were moving between trying to arrest him and trying to help him. They get him into the car he's resisting, and he begs them to let him lie down. They do that but pin him down to stop him getting up and being a danger to himself and others.
They had called him an ambulance and it turned up just too late - though what chance they would have had of saving him, I don't really know.
The full video shows it clearly isn't racially motivated.
George has two friends with him (both black), who are also trying to calm him down.
His behavior gets more and more erratic over the 18 minutes and his speech is making less and less sense.
The guess is he swallowed the fentanyl when the cops pulled up, and the bag burst, because it was an heroic amount to just take and then drive around! So he was basically a dead man checking out.
The cops were moving between trying to calm him down and trying to help him. They get him into the car he's resisting, and he begs them to let him lie down. They do that but pin him down to stop him getting up and being a danger to himself and others.
They had called him an ambulance and it turned up just too late - though what chance they would have had of saving him, I don't really know.