[Pants-of-dog]

The police have killed another black person. David McAtee, rest in peace.

https://www.courier-journal.com/story/n ... 308229002/

[Godstud]

This heavy-handed violence will surely pacify the people... Trump would approve.

[SpecialOlympian]

[Godstud]

@SpecialOlympian I thought, for a moment there, that these were confiscated from a police department, who shouldn't have access to military-grade weapons.

[wat0n]

Yes, you made that claim earlier and the evidence you provided to support your claim actually contradicted it.

So, yes, the rioting is irrelevant in comparison to the violence, which is mostly caused by the police.

That the riots have led to more murders because the police has too much stuff on its hands right now is not controversial. This last weekend was the deadliest one in Chicago so far in 2020, with 19 murders.

This seems unlikely. He is almost certain to get off the third degree murder charge, because the law specifically targets people who indiscriminately endanger others, while the murdering cop deliberately targeted Mr. Floyd, a specific individual.

What kind of strange reading of Minnesota law is that?

609.195 MURDER IN THE THIRD DEGREE.

(a) Whoever, without intent to effect the death of any person, causes the death of another by perpetrating an act eminently dangerous to others and evincing a depraved mind, without regard for human life, is guilty of murder in the third degree and may be sentenced to imprisonment for not more than 25 years.

"Any person" would of course include George Floyd.

Meanwhile, the initial autopsy is laying the groundwork for the manslaughter charge to be dismissed because he apparently did not die from choking.

It sure helps to work with the police and attorneys who are supposedly investigating you!

Since when is the DA the only one allowed to request autopsies or even the only autopsy that is done?

MINNEAPOLIS -- A medical examiner on Monday classified George Floyd’s death as a homicide, saying his heart stopped as police restrained him and compressed his neck, in a widely seen video that has sparked protests across the nation.

“Decedent experienced a cardiopulmonary arrest while being restrained by law enforcement officer(s),” the Hennepin County Medical Examiner's Office said in a news release. Cause of death was listed as “cardiopulmonary arrest complicating law enforcement subdual, restraint and neck compression.”

Under "other significant conditions” it said Floyd suffered from heart disease and hypertension, and listed fentanyl intoxication and recent methamphetamine use. Those factors were not listed under cause of death.

A Minneapolis police officer was charged last week with third-degree murder in Floyd’s death, and three other officers were fired. Bystander video showed the officer, Derek Chauvin, holding his knee on Floyd’s neck despite the man's cries that he can't breathe until he eventually stopped moving.

A separate autopsy commissioned for Floyd’s family also called his death a homicide. It concluded that that he died of asphyxiation due to neck and back compression, said the family’s attorney, Ben Crump, who called for the charge against Chauvin to be upgraded to first-degree murder and for three other officers to be charged. He didn't say what the charges against the other officers should be.

That autopsy, by a forensic pathologist who also examined Eric Garner’s body, found the compression cut off blood to Floyd’s brain, and that the pressure of other officers' knees on his back made it impossible for him to breathe, Crump said.

Both the medical examiner and the family’s experts differed from the description in last week’s criminal complaint against the officer of how Floyd died. The complaint, citing preliminary findings from the medical examiner, listed the effects of being restrained, along with underlying health issues and potential intoxicants in Floyd’s system. But it also said nothing was found “to support a diagnosis of traumatic asphyxia or strangulation.” Neither side has released its full autopsy report so far.

The family's autopsy found no evidence of heart disease and concluded he had been healthy.

Floyd, a black man who was in handcuffs at the time, died after Chauvin, who is white, ignored bystander shouts to get off Floyd and Floyd's cries that he couldn't breathe. His death sparked days of protests in Minneapolis and around America.

The complaint provided no details about intoxicants. In the 911 call that drew police, the caller described the man suspected of paying with counterfeit money as “awfully drunk and he’s not in control of himself.”

Floyd’s family and attorneys, like the families of other black men killed by police, commissioned their own autopsy because they didn’t trust local authorities to produce an unbiased report.

The family's autopsy was done by Michael Baden and Allecia Wilson. Baden is the former chief medical examiner of New York City, and was hired to do an autopsy of Garner, a black man who died in 2014 after New York police placed him in a chokehold and he pleaded that he could not breathe.

Baden also did an autopsy at the family's request for Michael Brown, an 18-year-old shot by police in Ferguson, Missouri. He said Brown didn’t reveal signs of a struggle, casting doubt on a claim by police that a struggle between Brown and the officer led to the shooting.

Dr. Judy Melinek, a forensic pathologist from the San Francisco Bay area who blogs about the subject and is not connected with the case, said the key difference between the medical examiner's conclusions and those of Baden and Walker are the official finding of “significant” conditions for Floyd, including heart disease and drugs in his system.

Baden and Wilson acknowledged on a conference call with reporters that they didn't have access to the tissue samples that the medical examiner kept that might have given more information on his health. Nor did they have their own toxicology results yet.

Melinek said it's not unusual for different pathologists to reach different determinations, given that they may be looking at different information and that they've had different experiences and training.

Under the law, a medical examiner determines the cause and manner of death, but it's up to prosecutors to decide whether criminal charges are warranted. The term homicide means only that a person's death was caused by another person.

Chauvin, who was also charged with manslaughter, is being held in a state prison. The other three officers on scene, like Chauvin, were fired the day after the incident but have not been charged.

The head of the Minneapolis police union said in a letter to members that the officers were fired without due process and labor attorneys are fighting for their jobs. Lt. Bob Kroll, the union president, also criticized city leadership, saying a lack of support is to blame for the days of sometimes violent protests.

When asked to respond, Mayor Jacob Frey said Kroll's opposition to reform and lack of empathy for the community has undermined trust in the police.

Gov. Tim Walz announced Sunday that Attorney General Keith Ellison would take the lead in any prosecutions in Floyd's death. Local civil rights activists have said Hennepin County Attorney Mike Freeman doesn't have the trust of the black community. They have protested outside his house, and pressed him to charge the other three officers.

Freeman remains on the case.

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So, you have 2 autopsies saying that Chauvin's actions caused Floyd's death. One of them is from the county examiner.

I doubt this, primary because the cases almost never even get to trial.

Yes, because of grand juries. Hence what I mentioned earlier: Cultural change is essential for getting more prosecutions, and convictions, in the case of police killings.

There is only one important point:

Are all these hundreds of killings justified? Maybe, but that is almost certainly not true. Cops are not magically perfect beings.

If they are not all justified, it means there is a non-zero number of unjustified cop killings.

And the percentage of unjustified cop killings that have gone unpunished is 100%.

Maybe, but how many would be (certainly not all of them were unjustified under the law either) and why wouldn't they end in prosecutions or convictions? Is it necessarily because of racism or there could be other reasons such as lack of evidence? One would need to read his books to have more details, I suppose.

Please provide evidence for this claim. Tahnks.

Sure:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boston_Police_Strike
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baltimore_police_strike

Do you know of any white people in the USA who have been killed for possibly having a counterfeit bill?

I, as a white person, have had counterfeit bills that I (unknowingly) tried to use. The people involved simply looked at it, laughed, and pointed out to me how I really should have known.

I did not end up on the ground, pleading for my last breath.

But they did not call the police on him just for being a black person with a counterfeit bill. He seemingly ignored them and left. Up until then, this isn't all that out of the ordinary - or you believe that if you did the same they would not call the police on you?

What happened afterwards, however, is squarely the cops' responsibility. Just as in the other 10 cases you cited earlier, which do include Whites, even if overall (at the national level) African Americans are (way) overrepresented in this statistic. And this is wrong, even if it's true that the amount of these incidents has been decreasing over time for both races (which should also be acknowledged - and does show that there have been improvements since BLM) there's still a lot of work to do. And I don't think anyone denies this.

@JohnRawls I'm not entirely sure the extent of how much blame Trump is getting from this. The incident itself took place in Minnesota, one of the most progressive states in the US that is governed by Democrats and the protestors themselves are not precisely Trump supporters. Trump is also not Constitutionally responsible for policing, although the Federal government did stop Justice Department probes on police brutality.

I would not be so sure most Americans blame him for this, as @Drlee said.

@Godstud and it should be mentioned that regardless of whether the cause of death was by asphyxiation or cardiac failure, both reports establish a causal link between each respective direct cause of death and the way he was restrained. Chauvin is indeed screwed, and the other two who were restraining him may also risk manslaughter charges given the language from the report (this is keeping in mind they were pressuring other parts of Floyd's body).

[skinster]

[Saeko]

Cop puts stick in man's hand so he can beat him up.

[JohnRawls]

[wat0n]

I don't mean the electorate, I mean the party itself, and the party itself seems solid.

I wouldn't say solid is the best term, even before this. It's doing better than in 2016 but the primary did show and even underscore that the party is indeed divided. Trump seemingly purged all the internal opposition in the GOP.

[Donna]

Overgeneralization. Plus hiding the meaning behind numbers is kinda similar to 1488 and the Trumpers. Meaning that for some reason you are afraid to say it out loud which should beg the question why should it be said in the first place.

lol

[skinster]

Watching frands livestreams from protests right now and the actions of the police state are terrifying.

[Donna]

Officers involved in the McAtee murder also turned their body cams off, prompting the Louisville mayor to sack the police chief.

#BlackLivesMatter

[skinster]

[ness31]

"MINNEAPOLIS -- A medical examiner on Monday classified George Floyd's death as a homicide, saying his heart stopped as police restrained him and compressed his neck, in a widely seen video that has sparked protests across the nation.

"Decedent experienced a cardiopulmonary arrest while being restrained by law enforcement officer(s)," the Hennepin County Medical Examiner's Office said in a news release. Cause of death was listed as "cardiopulmonary arrest complicating law enforcement subdual, restraint and neck compression."

Under "other significant conditions" it said Floyd suffered from heart disease and hypertension, and listed fentanyl intoxication and recent methamphetamine use. Those factors were not listed under cause of death."

Contrast that to:

"Both the medical examiner and the family's experts differed from the description in last week's criminal complaint against the officer of how Floyd died. The complaint, citing preliminary findings from the medical examiner, listed the effects of being restrained, along with underlying health issues and potential intoxicants in Floyd's system."

Am I cuckoo? This is the same finding worded and formatted differently

It doesn’t change the fact that Floyd was murdered. As Blackjack keeps saying, if the law is upheld, the rest is irrelevant.

It’s sad that autopsy reports have to change to pander to dumb violent people

[Saeko]

KA-BOOM!

[Saeko]

And there goes the powder-keg, holy shit!

[Saeko]

Redcoats awfully quiet about this:

[Drlee]

Now Trump is threatening to send in the army where the governors are refusing to call out the national guard. The sad thing is that Trump supporters are simply too unintelligent to realize that he can't do that.

And his most violent and racist supporters, the militia types are not intelligent enough to realize that for Trump to do that would represent an action that is exactly why they armed themselves in the first place. I am so sick of dullards.

[Saeko]

Regime firing squads in the streets:

[XogGyux]

Murder. Plain and simple.

Independent autopsy and Minnesota officials say George Floyd's death was homicide
Experts hired by George Floyd's family and the Hennepin County Medical Examiner have concluded his death was a homicide, but they differ on what caused it.

The independent autopsy says Floyd died of "asphyxiation from sustained pressure" when his neck and back were compressed by Minneapolis police officers during his arrest last week. The pressure cut off blood flow to his brain, that autopsy determined.

But the medical examiner's office, in its report also released Monday, said that the cause of death is "cardiopulmonary arrest complicating law enforcement subdual, restraint, and neck compression." Cardiopulmonary arrest means Floyd's heart failed.

The medical examiner made no mention of asphyxiation.

The Hennepin County release says heart disease was an issue; the independent examiner didn't find that.
https://edition.cnn.com/2020/06/01/us/g ... index.html

How is it possible that the police/prosecution side of this is still playing shenanigans. I am a cautious person to jump to conclusions but come on, there is fucking video evidence... MULTIPLE VIDEOS as if one was not enough. Look... if for some reason the initial "preliminary" autopsy did not directly points towards what is patently obvious in the video... it seems to me that they should have immediately ask not one, but 3-4 outside parties to independently confirm this. They must have seen coming this....

@SpecialOlympian I thought, for a moment there, that these were confiscated from a police department, who shouldn't have access to military-grade weapons.

BUT MAH SECON AMMEMENMENTT !

So, you have 2 autopsies saying that Chauvin's actions caused Floyd's death. One of them is from the county examiner.

That is not the whole thing. One of them doesn't really offer a mechanism that is consistent with what we saw and have solid evidence for. Look, if there is a video of me getting shot in the head and then the autopsy reports say I died by electrocution, I sure hope that someone will call foul .

Can we impeach him really quick again for treason against the people of the united states again. Doesn't have to be a lengthy process, next time the house meet just convince a 5 mins vote, and that's it. Just enough to leave it on record so that when 100k years from now archeologist extraterrestrial find the ruins to our planet, they can tell that at least a few saw this coming and tried to put some resistance.

Please Trump, send the military, so that everyone can finally see where your allegiance stands, which is definitely not with the American people. Many cops have already sided with the protesters, the military will follow and that will be the end of you.
Remember Brett Crozier? The military serve the people, the people protesting, not you.