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This is a freshly circulating incident out of MN. When I discuss viral or otherwise high profile incidents I always like to say "I was not there and that this is not intended to be a Monday Morning Quarterbacking". That& #39;s not going to be the case today. https://minnesota.cbslocal.com/2020/05/26/george-floyd-man-dies-after-being-arrested-by-minneapolis-police-fbi-called-to-investigate/">https://minnesota.cbslocal.com/2020/05/2...
Officers were called to the scene regarding a man who had attempted to use forged documents at a store. They arrive on scene and encounter George Floyd behind the wheel of a car, and he appears to be intoxicated.
They order the man out of the vehicle & by all appearances he initially complies. The news report, based at this point only on the word of police, say that he at some point becomes resistive. The report also states that after getting Floyd in cuffs he suffers a medical emergency.
While we don& #39;t know what level of resistance Floyd presented initially, we do know this last statement not to be true. Video show& #39;s Floyd on the ground for at least 7 minutes with an officer placing one knee on his neck and the other knee on his back.
It is clear they have been in this position for some time. Floyd does not appear to be actively struggling or resisting, and the officers do not seem to be worked from struggling with a non-compliant suspect. Floyd lays there crying out for relief stating that he can& #39;t breathe.
Floyd calls for his mother, and my heart starts to break knowing the outcome of this incident. He slowly becomes less and less responsive, until finally he is no longer conscious.
Members of the crowd bo begin to chime in that Floyd has become unresponsive. Still, for an additional 2 minutes before aid arrives, the knee pinned to Floyd& #39;s neck and on his back remain. As aid arrives the officer lets up and Floyd& #39;s limp body is rolled to his side.
He is transported to the hospital where he dies.
I don& #39;t know the exact cause of death yet, obviously we won& #39;t know until an autopsy is completed. That said, as a trained observer and having watched the video myself, my guess out the gate is going to be positional asphyxiation.
I don& #39;t know the exact cause of death yet, obviously we won& #39;t know until an autopsy is completed. That said, as a trained observer and having watched the video myself, my guess out the gate is going to be positional asphyxiation.
It is a misconception that if a person is able to verbally articulate "I can& #39;t breathe", that they can
breathe. In situations like this, such as a positional asphyxia, the subject may be able to inhale and exhale small amounts of air, but they aren& #39;t necessarily breathing.
breathe. In situations like this, such as a positional asphyxia, the subject may be able to inhale and exhale small amounts of air, but they aren& #39;t necessarily breathing.
Eventually, as seen in this video, by means of not receiving adequate breaths the subject will lose consciousness, and even, as evidenced, die as a result of this positional asphyxiation.
I am not a member of the Minneapolis Police Department. I do not know their policies or their training. I can however say that I have never once been instructed to place both knees on top of a person we have arrested, let alone one knee into the back of the neck.
As for me & mine, we have been trained 1 knee on the ground sucked up to the arrestee& #39;s body, while the other knee is in a position not directly on them, but able to apply pressure on the midback if they become resistive. I reiterate, never have I been trained knee to neck.
We are also trained to get people, as soon as safe and feasible, up off the ground and into a car, or at the very least into the recovery position on their side. There are several opportunities in this video to do just that, but it never happens, and a man dies.
As a result of this incident 4 cops have been fired & I would bet at least 1 will be tried for manslaughter.
I don& #39;t think George Floyd was killed out of malice. I do think he was killed out of poor training or at least application thereof.
I don& #39;t think George Floyd was killed out of malice. I do think he was killed out of poor training or at least application thereof.
He died at the hands of the police. He died because a cop was negligent, and I believe the officer on his neck and back needs to be held responsible, above and beyond just his firing. And before all of you come in here and tell me Floyd& #39;s actions got him there, yeah, sure, ok.
Floyd may have directly caused the police to be summoned. Sure. He doesn& #39;t deserve to die over a forged check.
"He resisted arrest and fought police", yeah, sure ok. But he died while handcuffed on the ground, begging for his life, begging for his mother, for over 7 minutes.
"He resisted arrest and fought police", yeah, sure ok. But he died while handcuffed on the ground, begging for his life, begging for his mother, for over 7 minutes.
He died posing no threat. This wasn& #39;t a police shooting where there was an imminent threat to the life those nearby or other officers on scene. This was a death that was completely avoidable, and is on our hands as a profession.
Incidents like this make justifiable uses of force all that much more difficult to truly defend. The justifiable outrage generated from offenses like this bleeds right into justifiable police actions.
Unless more info comes out, and it would have to be a doozy of a bombshell, this man, George Floyd, died because of the negligence of a cop. I hope the right thing is done here.