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Originally Posted by roscoguy
The devil is in the details. The post I responded to declared that "kneeling on an offenders neck is permissible by law in Minneapolis" which never was an expressly approved restraint. The "high on meth" is likewise a conclusion drawn by the poster rather than any official report. Stating these assumptions as facts just perpetuates more rumors & slants the whole conversation.
Maybe he was acting intoxicated, maybe he was genuinely claustrophobic. Neither one justifies kneeling on a fully restrained suspect's neck for nearly 9 minutes, including almost three minutes while Floyd was unresponsive.
I'm not misconstruing a direct answer to a direct question, Minneapolis Chief of Police Medaria Arradondo told Lesley Stahl, "George Floyd wasn't resisting arrest".
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I don't see those exact words in quotes anywhere in your link. Just the following exchange in which the Chief may be only disagreeing with the second part of Stahl's question. Doesn't matter anyway, the Chief did not witness the arrest and won't be called to testify on whether or not Floyd resisted. The defense will use the female witness in the car and bodycam video and audio to prove it.
Lesley Stahl: So as I understand it, there was something released to the press, that George Floyd had resisted arrest and that he had-- I'm gonna read this, died "after a medical incident during a police interaction."
Chief Medaria Arradondo: That was preliminary information that was absolutely an official police statement however, um, that was not accurate.