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Originally Posted by Heyitsrick
Who, exactly, are you talking about? People here in this forum? I don't know who's vindicating any of the officers. But it's clear, now, that Floyd did resist arrest - contrary to many of the comments I've seen up until now. And no, before anyone asks, he absolutely didn't deserve to die for that. But it is part of the story, just like all of the other evidence.
As for the Medical Examiner, I'm not sure why he would release any preliminary findings unless he was absolutely sure of that much that he was reporting. To be wrong about those findings would be terrible. If you're not 100% sure about what you're releasing to the public, keep your mouth shut. Since the ME hasn't kept quiet on that front, I'm going to assume (yeah, I know...) he's done his work on that score. Time will tell.
But getting back to your comments, who - specifically - are these people you're speaking of?
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I'm talking about the nature of this thread, in general, and the underlying root of the attitudes toward the subject.
The underlying root is the prevalence of conspiracy theory, misdirection, bait and switch, out-and-out lies, innuendos, conveniently missing bits of information, and intentional deflection of the crux of the matter, ALL OVER THE INTERNET that leads otherwise intelligent people to look elsewhere while an injustice is done.
The facts: All kinds of things might have happened before the video tape started at second #1. Floyd might have resisted mightily. That's fine and well, and everyone who thinks this happened is 100% correct. Hypothetically - Floyd was a regular POS who was aggressive and violent and horrible.
NOW LET THAT GO because it has NOTHING to do with the video.
The video shows that this man had ALREADY been subdued. He was unarmed. Not merely "disarmed" - but UNarmed, meaning he had no weapon from the start, according to the police reports. He was already handcuffed. He was already on the ground, face down. He had one cop sitting on his legs. Another on his back. A third on his neck. He was INCAPABLE of resisting anything, at the point this video was taken.
He was helpless.
According to reports he had been complaining all along that he couldn't breath. It was clear in the video that he was, in fact, having trouble breathing.
These ex-police officers refused to let up. Chauvin even kept his knee on the guy's neck AFTER someone checked Floyd's pulse and proclaimed there was no pulse.
He didn't just keep it on his neck - he kept it there for a good couple of minutes.
THESE are the facts that are pertinent to the thread. Not that Floyd resisted arrests some time BEFORE that 10-minute video was shot.
What is pertinent to the thread is everything that occurred DURING the time frame of that video.
Everything else is a distraction away from this, and an attempt to minimize the horrendous, atrocious, monstrous crime that Chauvin committed against George Floyd.