Originally Posted by
jmdrake
Okay. Thanks for your response. I don't disagree with anything you said. I was, however, specifically asking for an explanation as to why Chauvin would keep his knee on Floyd's neck even after they couldn't find a pulse on Floyd. Yeah I get that we have a broken system and qualified immunity and all that. I get that police will get the benefit of the doubt, and sometimes (usually?) get off, for doing things that would get the rest of us 10 to 20. I don't understand why, in this one particular incident, people are still trying to argue that somehow, what Chauvin did after Floyd was dead was somehow reasonable. I get that Floyd said "I can't breath" while he was still in the car. I get that he was resisting arrest. I get that he asked to be put on the ground. I don't get the knee on the neck, but I get that other people get that. I just seems to me, call me crazy, that as soon as you can't find a pulse the proper procedure is to at that point turn someone over at try to administer CPR. Or at the very least at that point get up off the person. People on both sides of the political divide are trying to make more out of this verdict than what actually happened. I think it was a fluke. I think Chauvin's apparent lack of concern for someone who, at that point, was already dead made it easier to convict him than it otherwise would have been. I don't think this at all carries over, for example, to the Mikiah Bryant shooting. I have my doubts if even "taser, taser" woman is going to get convicted even though at the very least I think she's guilty of reckless homicide. But maybe I'm just looking at this all wrong. Who knows?
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