I have a question about the George Floyd incident.

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The cop who strangled him actually may have had autistic qualities.. he did not fit in with sociable people, wasn't fun to chat with, was awkward in social situations.. so his approach to taking down suspects was stringent and lacked flexibility..

Alternatively, maybe the footage from a member of the public, which focussed on the ending and not events leading up to it and which had been widely publicised forced the prosecutor to lay charges in order to try and defuse the situation?

Which could lead to an interesting situation should they have been "over charged" and so are found "not guilty".

Not saying Mr Chauvin was an angel (his records certainly indicate otherwise), but if it turns out he was "following his training", it could quite easily affect the outcome of the trial...

Strange: Facts indicate otherwise:

Source: https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2020/05/29/george-floyd-experts-say-neck-restraint-allowed-minneapolis-can-kill/5274334002/

Well I guess it would depend on how many officers that the defense can produce to cooberate this. Will there be many who will say this is a textbook method, even for 8 minutes?

Well the article says that one expert says the knee press is allowed, but will the prosecution be able to produce more witnesses who disagree with that, and say it's not true?

So Chauvin has two hurdles i) is it allowed and ii) can he use it for 8min 46sec?

But as for the video being cut, the one I saw on youtube seems to show the entire incident without any cutting ahead in it though.

Or, worst case for the prosecution: It is included in training material\official guidelines, and there is nothing there to indicate that there are any potential issues to be aware of when using it\timeframes over which it can be used, whereas there are for other restraint methods.

As your i) appears to have been covered (in that is was permitted\instructed to be used), they would be reliant on there being something to state it should not be used for prolonged periods (and lacking that, that no other restraint option did have a recommended timeframe for use).

He had a beyond lethal dose of fentanyl and other drugs in his system, he had Covid-19, and he had heart problems.

https://lawandcrime.com/george-floyd-death/authorities-just-released-george-floyds-complete-autopsy-report-read-it-here/

The officers should have given him Narcan, but I don’t know how obvious the OD signs are if the person doesn’t tell you they used drugs.

The knee-on-the-neck arrest of George Floyd had nothing to do with his death — because he actually “killed himself,” a lawyer for one of the four charged cops has claimed.

Earl Gray, the attorney for Thomas Lane, has already filed court papers trying to dismiss the fired officer’s charges, insisting the real cause of Floyd’s death was an overdose of the powerful opioid fentanyl.

Gray now claims it will help clear all of the fired cops — even Derek Chauvin, the Minneapolis officer filmed with his knee on Floyd’s neck for almost eight minutes as he begged, “I can’t breathe”.

“None of these guys — even Chauvin — actually killed him,” Gray told the Los Angeles Times of the May death ruled a homicide by the medical examiner.

“He killed himself,” he insisted of Floyd, whose death sparked months of often violent protests across the US and parts of the rest of the world.

“We are going to show that my client and the other cops were doing their jobs,” he insisted.

The veteran criminal defence attorney said he would base his case on toxicology and autopsy reports, which found fentanyl and methamphetamine in Floyd’s system.

Recently released police body camera footage also gave a fuller picture of the arrest, including the disappearance of a white spot on Floyd’s tongue that looks like “2 milligrams of fentanyl, a lethal dose,” he has said.

Floyd also told the officers he’d been “hooping,” slang for taking drugs, the report noted.

Legal experts believe the case could prove less clear-cut than the initial rush to judgment by the public.

“This is not a slam dunk for the prosecution and not an easy case, especially for the higher-degree homicide charges,” Philip Stinson, a Bowling Green State University criminologist and former cop who studies police misconduct, told the LA paper.

“If this case goes to trial and an officer testifies on his own behalf, it is possible there is reasonable doubt there for jurors.”

Chauvin is charged with Floyd’s murder. Lane and two other officers — Alexander Kueng and Tou Thao — each face charges of aiding and abetting second-degree murder and aiding and abetting second-degree manslaughter.

All four were fired from the Minneapolis Police Department after footage of the death emerged.

Attorneys for Chauvin, Kueng and Thao declined to comment on Gray’s remarks, as did prosecutors in the case, the Los Angeles Times said.