Wow, I never saw this post til now 4 years later . Floyd had swallowed a baggie of drugs when the police showed up . Yea they knew who he was and all that . First off like Unbroken said it was the press who pushed this whole thing to turn it into a race thing ! The cop was done with all the news people constantly showing PARTS of the video!!! They will cut the video to show parts they want u to see . They can work people into a frenzy and they were . They didnt let the cop use alot of evidence and other things he tried to enter into the case and was denied! The press didnt say a word about his cause of death , which was he over dosed! Plus that is how they were taught to hild someone downwith the knee on the shoulder blade! So if ut was wrong it should have been in the people who were training the cops !! He us still in jail and there has beensmall talk about him being released from jail. But im sure the politicians are afraid of the black people rioting again !! Its sad when the truth just can not be used ! Unbroken mentioned fighting someone on meth , it is like giving the person a superpower ! A friend was on a detail at a football stadium and him and his partner were walking around the stadium and saw a guy on the 3rd floor of the walk way in the stadium , he jumps off and hits the concrete ground and snaps both legs in half between his knee and ankles.. They start running over and he jumps up and runs straight at them on his broken legs , so they were like holy crap, pulled out their clubs and just put them to him and he wouldnt stop. They finally get him on a stretcher and he was face down for some reason and juat kept smashing his face into the metal stretcher. He broke his nose several times and knocked most of his teeth out and wouldnt stop.... they finally got a sedative in him .. When they r on that shit they are dangerous.. but unfortantly the cop didnt cause the death of this guy but the black community wanted that guy to go to jail so he did !!!!