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I CAN'T BREATHE

antithesis

Posted 3:03 am, 08/01/2020

Did he pull his gun on you while you were sitting in the car?

Did he put you in the back seat of the police car, then drag you out on the other side and hold you face down in the street for 20 minutes, with his knee on your neck?

Did you see anything in the video that looked like he was resisting arrest?

|METALTRUCKER|

Posted 5:32 pm, 07/31/2020

I was always compliant with orders. Dirrected my full uniform deputies. Never had any troubles,or taped or shot to death. Only had one "healthy" deputy on my back once. Took less than 30 seconds to cuff me up.
Fact.

antithesis

Posted 4:39 pm, 07/31/2020

Here's an alternative link, Marie:


Fast forward to 1:15 to get to the actual video.

At around 2 minutes you can see where the cop pulls his gun on Floyd, who is still sitting in the car. Then he drags him out and handcuffs him, and you can see Floyd staggering a little... which makes sense, since the initial report was that he was drunk.

You then see them sit him down on the sidewalk, then after they yell at him for awhile they pick him up and walk him across the road. There's no resistance, just complaints that he's claustrophobic and having a hard time breathing.

At 3:56 you can see that they have Floyd in the back seat of the police SUV, then they drag him out of the other side of the car into the street, face down. That's when the one cop puts his knee on the back of his neck for 9 minutes.

You can watch the whole thing, at no time did Floyd fight or resist, and really never had an opportunity to.

When they had him in the SUV, why didn't they just take him on to book him?

This is pure speculation on my part, but I'd bet that he recognized the cop he worked with, demanded that if he didn't let him go then he'd rat on him for whatever illegal thing he was doing at the club, then the cops decided to retaliate... and it went a little too far.

shouldawouldacoulda

Posted 3:13 pm, 07/31/2020

I bought a new pair of knee pads. **** I'll happily break them in on someone's neck if anyone wants to experiment.

Note from GoNC: the **** above denotes a portion of this post that was removed for vulgarity.

hangsleft

Posted 3:10 pm, 07/31/2020

Metal, are you ready yet?

steamer

Posted 1:44 pm, 07/31/2020

Bandit let me Fart in your face so it will open your nose and then you can breathe

hangsleft

Posted 9:39 am, 07/31/2020

Are you ready to see how long you can speak with a knee on your throat?

|METALTRUCKER|

Posted 9:25 am, 07/31/2020

I'm busy.

hangsleft

Posted 3:31 pm, 07/30/2020

Where's Metal?

shouldawouldacoulda

Posted 2:34 pm, 07/30/2020

Weird. They were so sure having a knee on a neck wasn't deadly.

hangsleft

Posted 1:50 pm, 07/30/2020

As long as they aren't drinking or on drugs they should survive, right? And no one wants to try? I'm disappointed. I really wanted to stand by and just watch.

shouldawouldacoulda

Posted 1:39 pm, 07/30/2020

I can't believe I don't have any takers.

hangsleft

Posted 1:36 pm, 07/30/2020

I'll watch.

shouldawouldacoulda

Posted 1:36 pm, 07/30/2020

Nine minutes, Marie. You ready?

MarieLaveau

Posted 11:16 am, 07/30/2020

Post a link that will work anti, maybe they took them down for whatever reason?? Well, it is 3:01am i understand, but he was resisting when One officer tried to get him out of his vehicle.. You think the other officer ran around to drivers side just to watch???

shouldawouldacoulda

Posted 7:22 am, 07/30/2020

Nine minutes, Foxy. Want to try?

Foxnose

Posted 7:21 am, 07/30/2020

Who started the "take a knee" movement?

shouldawouldacoulda

Posted 7:15 am, 07/30/2020

I still offer the opportunity to rest my knee for nine minutes on the neck of any conservative who wishes to test this theory out.

antithesis

Posted 3:01 am, 07/30/2020

This is the 4th time I've posted it, Metal. If you're not going to read the facts, why bother posting?

"To speak, you only have to move air through the upper airways and the vocal cords, a very small amount," and that does not mean that enough air is getting down into the lungs where it can supply the rest of the body with oxygen, said Dr. Gary Weissman, a lung specialist at the University of Pennsylvania.

https://www.pressherald.com...d-breathe/

Marie, I'm curious which part of this shows him resisting or not complying?


The video shows that the cops had him handcuffed and in the back seat, then for some reason they drug him out to the street.

Then you can hear the cops saying "get up and get in the car," taunting him while they're holding him down. That's when he's begging them to let him breathe.

You can watch the cop that knows him and used to work with him looks at him and sees that he's unconscious, but he continues pressing his knee on his neck for several more minutes.

After watching the video, how any anyone believe that it wasn't murder?

Jimbojolly

Posted 9:56 pm, 07/29/2020

Marie doesn't believe that excessive force exists.

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