Minneapolis is burning and an officer has been charged with murder because a white cop was filmed kneeling on the neck of a black man who later died. The prevailing narrative says the cop strangled or suffocated George Floyd, but the autopsy tells a different story. The cause of death is not listed as traumatic asphyxia, but rather underlying health issues and drug abuse. Once again a good police brutality story falls apart and once again liberals and black activists will ignore the facts to perpetuate the outrage.
On Monday in Minneapolis, black man George Floyd was arrested for passing a counterfeit $20 bill. During the arrest, Floyd refused to get in the police vehicle and threw himself on the ground. Former Officer Derek Chauvin knelt on the back of Floyd’s neck as he and another officer tried to calm him down and get him into the cruiser. Floyd complained he couldn’t breath, went limp, and later died at the hospital.
In the 4 days since this happened, Chauvin was fired and charged with 3rd degree murder and manslaughter. In the charging document however is this interesting tidbit:
The autopsy revealed no physical findings that support a diagnosis of traumatic asphyxiation or strangulation. Mr. Floyd had underlying health conditions including coronary artery disease and hypertensive heart disease. The combined effects of Mr. Floyd being restrained by the police, his underlying health conditions and any potential intoxicants in his system likely contributed to his death.
In other words, Floyd had a bum-ticker and was high when he resisted arrest and that’s why he died. He wasn’t strangled. He wasn’t smothered. He was in poor health and abusing drugs.
It seems weird that this information would be included in a changing report accusing Chauvin of murder since it would seem to exonerate him.
Fox News reports that Hennepin County Attorney Mike Freeman is pleased at punch that he took absolutely no care in preparing these charges:
“This is by far the fastest we have ever charged a police officer. Normally these cases take nine months to a year. We have to charge these cases very carefully because we have a difficult burden of proof,” said Freeman.
Not only didn’t they worry about the burden of proof, they done left in all the evidence Chauvin needs to beat the charges.
The George Floyd case has drawn parallels to the Eric Garner death and now the similarities are eerie. In 2104, Eric Garner was arrested for selling loose cigarettes on the street in NY. He too resisted arrest so an officer put him in a choke hold. Garner made famous the phrase “I can’t breath” and he later died. Also in that case, it turned out that Garner had many underlying health problems and actually died from a heart attack, not strangulation.
The only difference is, in the Garner case, it went to a grand jury that refused to charge the officer who administered the choke hold while the kneeling cop was charged with murder 3 days after the event.
No doubt there was a rush to charge Chauvin in an attempt to get black people to stop burning and looting Minneapolis. The problem with this approach is, when the former officer is eventually exonerated, black people will burn and loot Minneapolis once again. This is just kind of kicking the can down the road.
