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Originally Posted by Velvet
My (naive) interpretation of video. One policeman kneeling on uncooperative person. Another policeman looking around as if to look around to see can anyone see them. Guy on the ground saying, “I can’t breathe”. Nothing changes. Later guy on ground calls softly, “mama”. Nothing changes. That’s what I saw.
From that short video it looked like murder.
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I think their defense is going to be that George Floyd could talk, therefore he was breathing and the officers were not aware of the level of distress that he was in.
I think they'll get manslaughter. I think the intent to murder is going to be hard to prove. I also think that the fact that Floyd had a preexisting heart condition and drugs in his system will make it hard to get a murder conviction but we'll see. That one police officer, in particular, is not a sympathetic subject so if he gets over convicted I doubt anyone would care.