Medical experts: Floyd's speech didn't mean he could breathe

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As George Floyd repeatedly pleaded “I can't breathe” to police officers holding him down on a Minneapolis street corner, some of the officers responded by pointing out he was able to speak. That reaction is dangerously wrong, medical experts say.

That reaction -- seen in police restraint deaths around the country -- is dangerously wrong, medical experts say. While it would be right to believe a person who can't talk also cannot breathe, the reverse is not true - speaking does not imply that someone is getting enough air to survive.

“I'm not aware of any standard training of police officers that lets them know, `Hey, if someone is still able to talk they are not having difficulty breathing, so you can just keep doing what you are doing,”' said Craig Futterman, professor at University of Chicago Law School and an expert on use of force.

The volume of an ordinary breath is about 400 to 600 mL, but normal speech requires about 50 mL of gas per syllable, so saying the words “I can't breathe” would require 150 mL of gas, the authors wrote. Craig McKinnis died in May 2014 in Kansas City, Kansas, after he was restrained by police during a traffic stop. According to a federal lawsuit, McKinnis' girlfriend said that after McKinnis cried, “I can't breathe,” one of the officers said, “If you can talk, you can breathe.”

 

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Man take a lot at these comments on this. But racism doesn't exist in Canada? 🙄

Oh shut up. Sometimes science is so hypothetical. Like you’re not George Floyd. You do not know what he could or couldn’t do. Unfortunately George Floyd isn’t here because serve and protect only applies to police officers.

Do you realize how many times, when apprehending someone, police get detainees acting all sucky, fake crying to get sympathy. Maybe they figured Floyd was fulla crap

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