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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsFloyd arrest May, 2019
"Undo your seat belt.
Go ahead and undo your seatbelt.
I don't plan on shooting you.
Relax, just undo your seatbelt.
Just keep your hands up where I can see them
Keep your hands where I can fucking see them (now shouting and angry)
Put them up on the dash.
put them on the dash, on the dash. Put your hands on the dash, it's the last time I'm gonna tell you.
He keeps moving his hands around.
Put them on your head."
How do you undo your seat belt with your hands on the dash?
Conflicting orders that allow the officer to say he's resisting. Are they taught this bullshit line of questioning?
Why was that car pulled over in 2019?
If this is admitted into evidence, this event that is irrelevant to Chauvin's choice to put his knee on Floyd's neck, then Chauvin's past record of infraction and reprimand should also be fair game.
It's not illegal to be high, as far as I know. Our School resource officer told me this in explaining why the kids will eat their pills or weed rather than be caught with them.
Redirect should simply go back to the medical experts who agreed it wasn't the fentanyl, it wasn't the high blood pressure, it wasn't underlying heart disease, it was positional asphyxiation.
Sneederbunk
(14,291 posts)He has been arrested 9 times.
Claire Oh Nette
(2,636 posts)Which is it?
If each arrest was as ticky tacky as the one leading to his death, then Floyd was harassed. Why was the driver of the car pulled over when the cops gave conflicting orders to Floyd?
wellst0nev0ter
(7,509 posts)Was stopped 52 times for ticky-tacky offenses before he was gunned down by the police.
TwilightZone
(25,471 posts)Driving while under the influence of drugs is illegal in all 50 states.
https://www.ncsl.org/research/transportation/drugged-driving-overview.aspx