Who And What Killed George Floyd?

Source: https://www.zerohedge.com/political/who-and-what-killed-george-floyd
Published: Mar 16, 2021
Author: Tyler Durden
Post Date: 2021-03-16 23:34:42 by Horse
Views: 565

Authored by Pat Buchanan via Buchanan.org,

Friday, as the jury was being empaneled for the trial of fired police officer Derek Chauvin, the Minneapolis City Council voted 13-0 to approve a record $27 million civil settlement with the family of George Floyd over his death in police custody.

The jury will not likely miss this message sent by the city fathers:

I.e., an atrocity was perpetrated by our police, and we are admitting our responsibility and doing our duty by offering these reparations for Floyd’s cruel and unjustified death and the suffering visited on his family.

Most Americans who saw the nine-minute tape of Chauvin with his knee on the neck of George Floyd as he pleaded, “I can’t breathe,” will probably concur with the charge of criminal culpability of Chauvin.

Yet, over the months, new facts and factors have emerged.

George Floyd was not choked to death. He was not asphyxiated. He was not killed by Chauvin’s knee on the side of his neck. An autopsy showed Floyd’s neck muscles were not even bruised.

Floyd died when his heart stopped. Yet, he was already suffering from an enlarged heart with constricted arteries, one of five of which was 90% blocked and two others were 75% blocked.

An autopsy found heavy concentrations of fentanyl in Floyd’s system and traces of methamphetamines. If Floyd had collapsed and died in the street while being wrested into the squad car, his death would have been attributed to a drug overdose and a bad heart.

Also, a videotape of the minutes prior to Floyd’s being put on the pavement, his neck under Chauvin’s knee, shows Floyd crying, repeatedly, “I can’t breathe,” while resisting the two rookie cops trying to put him in the patrol car.

Moreover, there is testimony from those with Floyd when he was stopped for passing an allegedly phony $20 bill, that he had passed out in the car before the cops arrived.

And the arresting cops claim he was foaming at the mouth before being restrained.

In short, Chauvin’s defense attorneys will likely make a credible case, backed by evidence, that Floyd’s death was not caused by the knee on his neck but by the battered condition of his heart, the near-lethal dose of fentanyl in his system, and his anxiety and panic at being arrested and fearing, as he wailed, that he was going to be shot.

The prosecution will counter-claim that Chauvin’s knee on Floyd’s neck, and the two other cops sitting on him, precipitated the stopping of his heart.

But the prosecution faces other questions.

How could Chauvin, who arrived late to the scene, know Floyd was a drug addict with a serious heart condition and a large amount of fentanyl in his system, before using the restraint technique of sitting on him and putting a knee on the side of his neck?

What was Chauvin trying to do when he arrived to see two rookie cops trying to cope with a powerfully built, six-foot-four-inch, 220-pound man violently resisting arrest?

Did Chauvin put his knee on Floyd’s neck to kill him? To torture or injure him? Or did he use the technique to restrain him?

Prosecutors will contend that the knee on the neck was criminal assault, a felony that caused Floyd to black out and his heart to stop?

But that raises another question:

Is placing a knee on the side of the neck an outlawed or a prohibited procedure for police to use to restrain a suspect violently resisting arrest, as a chokehold is in some precincts?

Or is it a procedure some police use legally at times?

Chauvin was clearly familiar with the technique. Had he used it before without injury to a suspect?

In a motion to dismiss the charges he himself faces in the death of Floyd, former police officer Thomas Lane included 30 pages of Minneapolis PD training materials including information on the “maximal restraint technique.” Lane included a photo of an officer with a knee on a suspect’s neck, similar to the hold used by Chauvin.

In preparing for the trial of Chauvin, Minneapolis has fortified, with concrete barriers, fences and razor wire, the courthouse where it will be held. Understandably, for any acquittal of Chauvin, or conviction on a lesser charge than murder, could trigger a riot like those that plagued the city through the summer of 2020.

And if a mob does take to the streets in Minneapolis, as it did all last summer, the national reaction will be telling.

How does one accurately describe a crowd that gathers outside a courthouse to demand, on the threat of a riot, a verdict of guilty?

And should a riot occur — and violent protests in Louisville, Seattle and Portland over the weekend seem to point to another such long hot summer - may we expect our new national leaders (Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer) to denounce the mob and stand up unequivocally for the rule of law?

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#1: TommyTheMadArtist    To: Horse (#0)

They had 2 forensic examinations done on Floyd, and they both said the man died of a heart attack brought on by his Fentanyl overdose as well as a host of other underlying conditions such as hardened arteries and diabetes. He was going to die at some point and probably die young. Because he was a drugged out douchebag.

So, what did the family do? They got a TV show involved and a TV Show doctor from Forensic Files which of course told a different story of MURDER.

If Crump the attorney has any balls he will disclose the FBI involvement in the Mexican Mob Money Laundering and Counterfeiting scam they were running out of the night club that Chauvin and He worked at. Of course it’s just about race, racial justice and of course my favorite, White Cops Hating Minorities.

Speaking of retards. Some neck bearded beta cuck shot up a couple Chinese Massage Parlors in Georgia today and got captured. Just as the communists were trying to ram through GUN CONTROL. Bet they get the votes now to ban everything!

That motherfucking beta likely voted for Biden and for all I know it’s just another phony event created by the Chinese government to make their bolshevik puppets in our government enact sweeping gun control.

TommyTheMadArtist posted on 2021-03-17 01:25:37   Reply   Private Reply


#2: Cynicom    To: Horse (#0)

Would it be racist to consider Floyd died by suicide???

Cynicom posted on 2021-03-17 07:45:43   Reply   Private Reply


#3: NeoconsNailed    To: Horse (#0)

Fantastic -- if Garrison drew up the affair like that it's gotten universally known the whole thing is a fraud. StoneToss's take from way back in June!:

stonetoss.com/comic/black-lives-tattered/

I say Floyd is still alive and well and THE WHOLE THING WAS STAGED, based on video evidence in Bitchute etc. The main BC video is gone now, but I see there's a lot of material on it there that should be good (aside from prolly crediting the assumption he's dead).

NeoconsNailed posted on 2021-03-17 08:14:36   Reply   Private Reply


#4: Darkwing    To: Horse (#0)

I remember the Rodney King case in CA many years ago. They never showed the entire video, they just showed the part when the cops try to subdue him. My take is that the autopsy will not be entered.

Darkwing posted on 2021-03-17 15:25:18   Reply   Private Reply


#5: AllTheKings'HorsesWontDoIt    To: Horse (#0)

And should a riot occur — and violent protests in Louisville, Seattle and Portland over the weekend seem to point to another such long hot summer - may we expect our new national leaders (Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer) to denounce the mob and stand up unequivocally for the rule of law?

FAT CHANCE!!!

I couldn't resist "circling back" LOL:

NBC Today Anchor, MSNBC Host Tweets Directive To Use "Protests" Rather Than "Riots" In Reporting

Tyler Durden

Fri, 05/29/2020 - 13:30

Authored by Jonathan Turley,

A police station in Minneapolis was torched last night as looting and rioting continued in that city. The escalating violence and looting has magnified controversies over how networks are describing the scenes.

Earlier, Craig Melvin, an MSNBC host and co-anchor of “Today,” shed some light as to how his network is framing its reporting.

Melvin tweeted a “guide” that the images “on the ground” are not to be described as rioting but rather “protests.”

That framing has been used on other networks, including some segments where the reporting seems bizarrely out of sync with the scenes in the background.

On Thursday morning, Melvin tweeted “This will guide our reporting in MN. ‘While the situation on the ground in Minneapolis is fluid, and there has been violence, it is most accurate at this time to describe what is happening there as ‘protests’ — not riots.'”

It is not clear where that “guide” originated but Melvin is quoted for a source.

Most television journalists from NBC to CBS to ABC to BBC to Fox have done excellent jobs in stressing the understandable outrage over the death of George Floyd, which is currently under investigation not just by local prosecutors but the Justice Department. Indeed, many of these reporters have shown considerable bravery in going into very volatile and violent scenes to report on the protests.

However, the looting and destruction is also a major part of the story as is the storming of a police station and burning it.

The effort to avoid referring to the rioting raises questions about the editorialization or shaping of the news. There are not a lot of ways to refer the looting and burning of businesses like the Target.

In the meantime, MSNBC journalist Ali Velshi stood in front of burning buildings but reported “For most of the day, today, it looked a lot calmer than yesterday looked,. And that’s what happened yesterday. It picked up later in the evening. The crowds gathered here and the standoff with the police looked very different last night.” He added:

“I want to be clear on how I characterize this. This is mostly a protest. It is not, generally speaking, unruly but fires have been started and this crowd is relishing that. There is a deep sense of grievance and complaint here, and that is the thing. That when you discount people who are doing things to public property that they shouldn’t be doing, it does have to be understood that this city has got, for the last several years, an issue with police, and it’s got a real sense of the deep sense of grievance of inequality.”

The concern over semantics in a story involving obvious rioting, looting, and arson undermines the reporting overall. There are frankly only a few words to describe rioting. It reminds me of my litigation representing members of Congress seeking to stop the undeclared war in Libya during the Obama Administration. The Administration argued in court that attacking the capitol and military force in Libya was not a “war” but a “kinetic action.”

It would be hard to come up with similar alternatives for these scenes. For example, “arson” could be called “combustive demonstrations” but it does not really convey the scene. Likewise, “looting” could be referred to as “unpurchased advocating” but it does not capture the scene of men breaking open cash registers with hammers or pictures of stores being picked clean of everything from big screen televisions to garden tools.

What is bizarre is that there is no need to try to sanitize or shape the story. There is a legitimate outrage over this death. There are many peaceful protests and most protesters are not looters or arsonists. However, there was obviously a riot unfolding and the media should be focused on reporting on scene rather than shaping it in a more positive light. Viewers can understand that there will always be an element within protests that will turn to violent or criminal means.

The men with the hammers stealing cash are not protesters. They are looters. The people storming and torching a police station are not protesters. They are rioters. That seems a lot easier than tweeting out speech guidelines. It does not take away from the terrible underlying story of Floyd’s death or the need for action on that case. It does not belittle the reason for the peaceful protests or the anger of many in the city. It is just fair reporting on what is occurring at these scenes..."

https://cryptonews.bizlim.com/news/nbc-today-anchor-msnbc-host-tweets-directive-to-use-protests-rather-than-riots-in-reporting?uid=348157

Whites, conservatives, and patriots standing outside the People's House on January 6, or walking peacefully through it after the police threw open the doors, are "armed rioters" and "white supremacists" and "domestic terrorists".

Blacks, BLM, Antifa and other Judeo-Communist toadies raping, burning, murdering, and pillaging, and a U.S. government bombing the capitol of a country that did not attack us are just peaceful protesters, doncha know.

AllTheKings'HorsesWontDoIt posted on 2021-03-17 17:19:50   Reply   Private Reply


#6: NeoconsNailed    To: AllTheKings'HorsesWontDoIt (#5)

They lack the most basic A-B-C levels of honesty. They are despicable soulless rats and jackals.

Whenever you see language getting more wordy and euphemistic, rest assured we're getting JEWED again. 'Undocumented American' = wetback border-breaking criminal. 'Extraordinary rendition' = fedgov kidnapping of some hero.

NeoconsNailed posted on 2021-03-17 19:56:11   Reply   Private Reply


#7: AllTheKings'HorsesWontDoIt    To: NeoconsNailed (#6)

They lack the most basic A-B-C levels of honesty. They are despicable soulless rats and jackals.

Whenever you see language getting more wordy and euphemistic, rest assured we're getting JEWED again.

Yup. They change definitions like Horse posted here on the changing definition of "vaccine":

freedom4um.com/cgi-bin/readart.cgi?ArtNum=246849

I read somewhere in the past few weeks that that is how they made an end-run around the Constitution...by changing definitions.

It holds true in the IRS scam the way they redefined words such as "income", "state", "employee", etc. etc.

AllTheKings'HorsesWontDoIt posted on 2021-03-17 20:30:08   Reply   Private Reply


#8: AllTheKings'HorsesWontDoIt    To: NeoconsNailed (#6)

Neck Restraints were standard operating procedures for the Minneapolis police. It was in their training manual...until after George Floyd:

https://taketheredpillpeople.com/news/2020/05/29/minneapolis-police-department-trains-officers-on-choke-holds-to-intentionally-render-a-person-unconscious/

T'would be nice if it came out in court that they learned it in Israel:

https://christiansfortruth.com/israeli-consul-confirms-over-100-minneapolis-police-officers-received-israeli-anti-terror-training-in-2012/

AllTheKings'HorsesWontDoIt posted on 2021-03-17 20:40:16   Reply   Private Reply


#9: NeoconsNailed    To: AllTheKings'HorsesWontDoIt (#7)

Absolutely. The scoundrels are criminally insane and change the most crucial definitions to match the dementia they're forcing on everybody. One of my many beefs about republiCons and cornsoyvatives is that they blithely take up the devil's jargon and make it their own.

NeoconsNailed posted on 2021-03-18 04:28:38   Reply   Private Reply


#10: NeoconsNailed    To: AllTheKings'HorsesWontDoIt, Straitgate (#8)

OMG, it's prolly part of Krav Maga, a scheme of dirty fighting only the Izrullis would think up.

NeoconsNailed posted on 2021-03-18 04:30:40   Reply   Private Reply