Darth Omar
Russian asset
There's also the suspicion that the police had whilst taking Floyd into custody that he had Excited Delirium Syndome which renders him a serious danger to the police. (I think that was HIGHLY likely given the high-dose coctail of psychactive drugs he had injested and his observable behaviour and facial affect in the police body cam videos I have watched). Chavin was aware of this possibility ( as he and he three co-defendant officers can be heard discussing ExDS in one of the videos from a police body cam recording of the entire Floyd arrest incident) and given he was a relatively small man relative to Floyd who was in comparisan a much taller and extremely muscular/strong person, this could explain the length of time he kept Floyd immobilized in the knee/neck restraint he applied. Note as well, the the knee/neck restraint was a technique approved for use by the Minneapolis PD in their Officer Training Manual. Whether or not it should be is academic in this case. Chauvin used the restraint legally, and in precisely the kind of circumstances that the training manual stated that it could/should be used.
Floyd complains of shortness of breath many times throughout the entire process of his arrest, and, while Chauvin is applying the Knee /Neck restraint. He complains of this loudly and clearly. It is a symptom of Fentanyl overdose. It was not a shortness of breath due to his trachea/windpipe being clamped shut by Chauvin's knee, if it was, Floyd would not be able to speak clearly (or even at all) ?
Dachshund
Very little to not at all.
I’m skeptical that asphyxiation can be caused by a knee on the side of the neck without displacing cervical vertebrae. If there was a significant risk of that happening then the neck restraint wouldn’t be approved.
So most probably, Floyd died from cardiopulmonary arrest secondary to respiratory distress due to Fentanyl abuse. Like the one coroner concluded. That’s also consistent with cop cam evidence which clearly indicates Floyd was having difficulty breathing well before he was placed in the restraint position by Chauvin.
On paper, there’s no way a murder charge would hold up under this evidence but this is no ordinary case. Since Floyd was black and the cop was white a racial motive *gets read into it*, and yeah.