When someone is handcuffed lying face down, you don't have to kneel on their neck.

[shockey80]

You can hold them down with your hands and arms on their back, shoulders. Cased closed.

[roamer65]

1. THIS.

[Jamastiene]

2. Thank you.

That is what has been missed in all of this. Floyd was cuffed and laying face down on the pavement. There was zero reason for that murderer to ignore all of the people who were TELLING him he was MURDERING the man.

[In_The_Wind]

3. The cop knew he was using essive force. He should be tried for murder.

[pnwest]

6. and sickeningly, it really looked like

he was enjoying the monent. It’s unspeakable.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

4. Absolutely

[Brainfodder]

5. They knew each other, there is likely more to this?

I can think of a motive or two or three.

Too many movies and crime scene shows, perhaps, Dexter fan? Definitely.

[LiberalArkie]

7. If he accidenyly stumbled upon a counterfeiting ring, you do.

[Captain Stern]

10. I don't understand what you mean. n/t

[LiberalArkie]

11. He gave a counterfiet $20 bill to the store clerk. The store clerk called the police.

He waited outside on the hood of his car. The police came by. The officer and Floyd knew each other from working at the club. Clubs are very good places to pass fake money. There is more to the story than 3 cops killing someone that the lead cop knew.

Counterfieting money could be the thing.

[Captain Stern]

13. I am still not getting it.

The police didn't just 'come by'. They were called.

I've haven't seen a single piece of evidence that makes me think that the officer and victim knew each other.

I have no idea whether or not clubs are very good places to pass money. I'll defer to you on that.

Maybe there is more to the story...please share.

[LiberalArkie]

19. The store owner called the police to report that a man presented a fake $20 bill and he was waiting

to be arrested on the hood of his car.

The club owner said that they both worked security at the club on alternate nights.

[Captain Stern]

20. So, perhaps the officer and Floyd were working together at some point?

That's quite the tangled web.

[LiberalArkie]

21. They worked security at the same club. They knew each other

[Captain Stern]

26. You've convinced me. (no, not really)

The notion that the officer murdered Floyd because Floyd was exposing a counterfeiting ring that they were both involved in is preposterous.

[LiberalArkie]

29. I did not say both involved in

[LiberalArkie]

30. What about this

https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/charged-minn-cop-overkill-tactics-nightclub-guard-70961462


Charged Minn. cop used 'overkill' tactics as nightclub guard
A white Minneapolis police officer and the black suspect he's charged with killing both worked as security guards at the same Latin nightclub but its former owner says she’s not sure they knew each other


https://www.fox9.com/news/crying-all-day-couple-who-employed-george-floyd-mourns-his-death

[Captain Stern]

32. Ok. The owner of the club said she doesn't know if they knew each other.

That's just like you and me.

We don't know if they knew each other either.

[Hav]

22. I think there is a bit too much speculation going on to reach these kind of conclusions

The account from the store is they don't know why Floyd was still there, Floyd might not even have known about the fake bill or he was waiting there to make things right. The store owner said that many who present fake bills don't even know about it and the police only wants to know where the person got it from.

Regarding working at the same place, that could be just a coincidence. The owner of that place couldn't even say how well they knew each other as Chauvin worked there off-duty and outside while Floyd worked inside.

[fishwax]

14. Are you suggesting the cop was in the counterfeiting ring and killed Floyd to cover it up?

[LiberalArkie]

17. They knew each other, they worked at the same club. Why would the lead cop kill someone he

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worked with. Why didn't Floyd just give the store owner a good 20 and tear up the bad one. All the store owner is interested in is not getting stuck with phony money. I think until Floyd was killed

[The Wizard]

8. The position of the officer's foot indicates

a deliberate attempt to injure. His foot is positioned to exert pressure on his victims neck. If he was just restraining the suspect his foot would not be bent so as to exert maximum pressure. It seems like trivia, but the devil is in the details.

[malaise]

9. But what if you wanted a public lynching? n/t

[Grins]

12. LOOK AT THE PHOTO!

What startled me the most: Chauvin has his knee on George Floyd’s neck - and has his hand in his pocket!

If Floyd was resisting, why would a cop do that?
He wouldn’t. And that’s why it is murder in the second.

[coti]

27. Murder in the second?

Why would that be?

[RussBLib]

28. it looked like his hand was in his pocket

but it's a dark glove in front of dark pants. Maybe it's just resting on his leg. No matter, really.

What bugs me is the cops telling Floyd, "Get up! Get in the car!" when Floyd is handcuffed on the ground, with the frikkin' knee in his neck. That is some fucked up shit.

[chowder66]

31. Some cops also bend limbs in impossible directions and when people wince and writhe in pain

the scream Stop Resisting!

[RussBLib]

15. did they try a taser?

Floyd was a big man, but a couple of tasers could have probably calmed things down.

Wonder if we will see the body cams and hear the recordings of the other cops who did not seem to intervene. I don't understand how those three could just stand there, or kneel there, and not try to intervene even a little.

[DeminPennswoods]

18. Reportedly Chauvin was the

senior officer on the scene. Maybe the other officers didn't believe they could countermand a ranking officer.

[Hav]

25. He was already on the ground,

has apparently a heart condition and said he didn't feel well before being put on the ground with his arms handcuffed behind the back.
I don't think there is any need for a discussion whether a taser was needed.

[SoonerPride]

16. You don't have to kneel on their neck ever. Full stop.

That is not appropriate under any circumstances.

Ever.

[gollygee]

23. Came here to say this

+100

[pwb]

24. This cop was a hater many times over.

He liked it.