Hi,
Difficult topic for sure. I am a Canadian, so I may have a different perspective than others and I appreciate that. And I am not a police officer, nor a criminal.
I actually recorded the trial and watched most of it after work. My wife sat beside me and watched a fair share of it too. We listened to all the expert testimony, from both sides (very few experts for the defence) and we both came to the same conclusion. Mr. Chauvin obviously used unnecessary and excessive force on Mr. Floyd. We could not figure out what the end game was going to be other than punishing the suspect. When your fellow officers note first when the suspect went unconscious, then when he stopped breathing, and finally when he did not have a pulse you would let up on holding the suspect down. I think they continued to hold him down for four minutes after he went unconscious. Did they think the unconscious, unbreathing, pulseless guy was going to float away?
Cause of death will continue to be a discussion point for years to come, but I do not think Mr. Floyd would have died if he had just got in the car, nor would he have died if the three officers had not prevented him from breathing.
Just my perspective and I send everyone in the US best
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Cheers,
Ron