@alyx @LukeAlmighty @dave in some leaked video footage he had something in the car and threw it out as he was removed, and it doesn't seem like the officers noticed. my guess is that it was drugs of some sort, or he was so high he was just chucking shit out of his car and that doesn't exactly bode well either.

he was high as balls and had both a stimulant and a depressant in his system. you're absolutely not supposed to do both at the same time for what i hope are obvious reasons. they counteract each other and cause you to not notice what affect they're both having, this even happens with caffeine + alcohol and you can actually die that way because you don't notice how drunk you're getting even though you are blasting your bloodstream.

anyway, the *official* autopsy did say that there were no physical signs of strangulation or traumatic asphyxia. george floyd had a heart disease, had corona virus (which can affect lung operation), and obviously the drugs. that's a cocktail of destruction.

that guy was going out with an officer on top of him or without one. if he didn't have an officer on top of him then he probably would have been taken to a hospital while actually overdosing and might still be alive, but being restricted on the ground while his body was shutting down certainly didn't help and he wasn't given any help. i don't think the placement of the knee even really mattered given how there were no signs of physical trauma.

i think chauvin probably should have been charged with something like negligent homicide or involuntary manslaughter. if he wanted to kill the dude he would have just done it. there's way too much other stuff that was going on for him to have been charged with fucking second AND third degree murder as well as second degree manslaughter (for supposedly killing ONE dude). way too much for kneeling on a dumbass who was playing poker with the grim reaper already. and the other officers too, who got charged with aiding in the murder, like bro that's way too much of a sentence, especially considering the circumstances. but anything less and you can bet your fucking ass that courthouse would be on fire the next day. those dudes are probably safer in jail than out of it until their sentences are up and everyone is complaining about some other dumb "totally innocent" minority getting "murdered by police."

it's like george floyd jumped off of a cliff and got impaled on a rock so the cause of death was impalement instead of suicide or something. technically true, but it doesn't exactly tell the whole story. wouldn't have been impaled if he didn't jump. probably wouldn't have died if he hadn't done a shit load of drugs while also having a ***heart disease***. and then of course he was resisting police, it's not like he was being all nice and they just threw him down and kneeled on him. he was struggling against everything instead of just relaxing and letting things take their course... probably because he was high, but also maybe because he was a career criminal and knew he was doing something illegal which he didn't want to get caught for? we may never know......