Chauvin shivved
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I remember thinking the DA had overcharged the case and that they’d never be able to prove intent.
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@89th said in Chauvin shivved:
@kluurs said in Chauvin shivved:
I feel for the two cops who had been on the force for all of a couple of weeks and were charged. They got 3 year+ terms for obeying their supervisor.
Totally. And for me, even Chauvin's murder charge was too much. I could see involuntary manslaughter at the worst. But the ship has sailed on opinions or how history will remember the event.
At least the irrational histrionic reaction was on the right side of history.
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He might just be a dick. Kind of seems like one. Cops aren’t usually that popular in prison anyway regardless of the circumstances.
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There is a documentary just released. Among the revelations is that Floyd had been saying he "couldn't breathe" even while he was standing up. He also had potentially fatal levels of opiates and meth in his system.
Loury and McWhorter discussed it on Loury's podcast released today. McWhorter's opinion on the incident shifted. Recognition was given to the fact that you still can't utter out loud that maybe the cops didn't receive fair justice. Welcome to Joe Biden's America.
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@Horace said in Chauvin shivved:
There is a documentary just released. Among the revelations is that Floyd had been saying he "couldn't breathe" even while he was standing up.
That seems to me a fact that would have worsened the case against Chauvin. The last thing you should do to someone who can’t breathe is put your weight on his neck.
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@Horace said in Chauvin shivved:
There is a documentary just released. Among the revelations is that Floyd had been saying he "couldn't breathe" even while he was standing up. He also had potentially fatal levels of opiates and meth in his system.
Not to pull the card, but haven't we (or I) been saying that this whole time? Watch the full video, he's sitting in the cop car going "i can't breathe" and also while standing, so it had nothing directly to do with Chauvin at least initially. It's a phrase cops hear ALL THE TIME to try and get away from being arrested or pinned down. He's moving his head and talking too... which usually includes breathing. And yes, he was resisting arrest, and full of drugs. Anyway.....deep breath 89th........not saying Chauvin behaved perfectly, but if you watch the video and come away with "he murdered him", it's really a leap of logic IMO. But then again, skin color.
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@George-K said in Chauvin shivved:
@Jolly said in Chauvin shivved:
SS trait
I wasn't aware of that. I wonder if that contributed to his demise.
Possible.
While findings are consistent post-mortem for a person with SS trait, I have seen sickle cells on peripheral smears of patients with the trait. Add in oxygen deprivation for whatever reason, and I could see enough cells sickling to have some impact.
I think it's a really good question that was not explored sufficiently.
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@jon-nyc said in Chauvin shivved:
@Horace said in Chauvin shivved:
There is a documentary just released. Among the revelations is that Floyd had been saying he "couldn't breathe" even while he was standing up.
That seems to me a fact that would have worsened the case against Chauvin. The last thing you should do to someone who can’t breathe is put your weight on his neck.
The point was that it was a meaningless noise coming out of his mouth. If you watch the first few minutes of the documentary you can get a taste for how incoherent he was.
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Google tells me respiratory depression or even arrest is a fentanyl overdose symptom. Very, very last person who’s neck you should put your weight on.
The more you guys post the more I’m starting to be convinced that the verdict was correct.
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@jon-nyc said in Chauvin shivved:
Google tells me respiratory depression or even arrest is a fentanyl overdose symptom. Very, very last person who’s neck you should put your weight on.
The more you guys post the more I’m starting to be convinced that the verdict was correct.
Yes you are performative with these things on occasion. Who can forget your disappointment that Jerry Jones didn't apologize for the gathering he attended as a teenager? I understand that there is less cognitive dissonance the more one can mold oneself into a true believer. Meanwhile, those of us without socially obligated belief systems to attend to, might have much more understanding of the cops' perspective, and might not be inclined to hold them to standards that make sense with perfect hindsight, and google searches.
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@Jolly said in Chauvin shivved:
I have seen sickle cells on peripheral smears of patients with the trait. Add in oxygen deprivation for whatever reason,
This is a concern.
Using tourniquets during orthopedic surgery in sickle-cell trait patients has always been controversial, for fear that sickling can occur distal to the tourniquet, causing a cascade of sickling elsewhere on restoration of blood flow.
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@jon-nyc said in Chauvin shivved:
Google tells me respiratory depression or even arrest is a fentanyl overdose symptom. Very, very last person who’s neck you should put your weight on.
The more you guys post the more I’m starting to be convinced that the verdict was correct.
Floyd was a pretty good-sized guy and high as a kite. While I don't approve of the neck hold, tell me exactly how you handle someone like that, when they're resisting arrest?
Life ain't the movies. Fighting down a crazy can and will get you hurt. Badly. During my career at St. Elsewhere, we had a security guard stabbed, another suffer a broken leg and ankle and a maintenance guy get his jaw broken while trying to help in a Code White.