Justice for Derek Chauvin
9th March 2021
First, the video clip that horrified the world was heavily edited. We see Floyd, pinned to the ground by Chauvin, piteously crying ‘I can’t breathe.’ Conclusion? That he can’t breathe because Chauvin is pressing on his windpipe. But a look at the police bodycam footage shows that Floyd was complaining that he couldn’t breathe before he was restrained by the police. Why? Because, as the FBI’s interview with the local medical examiner on July 8, 2020 revealed, Floyd was suffering from pulmonary edema, i.e., his lungs were full of fluid. And why was that? Partly because of an underlying heart condition, partly because Floyd was full to the gills with fentanyl, a drug known to affect respiration and cause pulmonary edema.
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Here’s something else. Although Chauvin’s restraint looks brutal, it was actually part of the standard Minneapolis police protocol for dealing with persons exhibiting ‘excited delirium,’ a dangerous, often fatal, condition brought about by too much fentanyl with one’s afternoon tea. According to the medical examiner, Chauvin did not appear to have obstructed Floyd’s airway — Floyd would not have been able to speak if he had — and Floyd did not die from strangulation. Bottom line, George Floyd died from the effects of a self-administered drug overdose, effects that might have been exacerbated by his interactions with the police, i.e., his exertions in resisting arrest. For their part, the police were trying to help Floyd. It was they who called the ambulance because they recognized that Floyd was in extremis.
March 9th, 2021 at 17:00
As an avid “Law & Order” follower, I remember the example they presented one day (from law school, according to the script) that if a guy jumped off a 10 story building and as he passed the fifth floor someone leaned out and shot him in the head, that his death would be prosecuted as murder. (I think it was on an episode with Fred Dalton Thompson, who actually was an attorney of some renown.)
Extrapolating from that, Floyd may have been on a fast track to becoming worm food, but Chauvin’s actions may have contributed to the certainty of that goal. Floyd has become a saint in the MSM, and that’s far from the truth. Chauvin has been turned into an arch villain, and that may be unfair, but I doubt that anyone could watch much of the video and think that he did all the right things.
According to some reports I’ve seen, the two of them once worked as bouncers at the same club, but Chauvin was fired because he was noticeably too enthusiastic about getting physical with patrons.
In my observation of bad circumstances like this, it’s not uncommon that the tragedy was the result of two complete assholes that just happened to come together under a particular circumstance. Take a look at the Trayvon Martin/George Zimmerman incident. A wannabe punk and a wannabe Lone Ranger bumped into each other and tons of stupidity ensued, resulting in the death of one of the losers. In both of these cases, the MSM and the race baiters turned the situation into a feeding frenzy. Go back to 1984 and look at the Bernhard Goetz incident. Ol’ Bernie was nutty as a fruitcake, and I think one of the punks he shot got killed robbing someone while they were waiting for Bernie’s trial. Like some sort of bad quarks that combine to make a crap particle.
March 10th, 2021 at 12:58
The point is that Chauvin is reputed to have asphyxiated Floyd, except that if his air was cut off he couldn’t have spent all that time saying ‘I can’t breathe’. The whole scenario is internally contradictory.
I suspect that Chauvin was actually kneeling on the ground with Floyd’s neck in the triangle formed by Chauvin’s knee (on the ground), his shin (on Floyd’s neck), and his foot (on the ground with its front toes bent and touching the ground). This is a technique we were taught fpr Shore Patrol back in the 1970s. This wouldn’t cut off his air at all but would impede him getting up or moving around. Apparently he was also cuffed at the time.