The Hennepin County criminal complaint against ex-Minneapolis police officer Derek Michael Chauvin described how George Floyd could not breathe prior to his restraint, prompting legal speculation that the charges against him may not hold up in court.
"While standing outside the car, Mr. Floyd began saying and repeating that he could not breathe," reads the criminal complaint against Chauvin. It went on to describe how the four officers restrained Floyd as he continued to say"I can't breathe,""Mama" and"please." Hennepin County Attorney Mike Freeman characterized the incident as"a senseless death," and his office filed two charges against Chauvin: one count of murder in the third-degree and one count of second-degree manslaughter. The Minnesota Department of Public Safety announced Friday that Chauvin, 44, was taken into custody by the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension and is being held on $500,000 bail.
"We're going to investigate [Floyd's death] as expeditiously, as thoroughly and completely as justice demands," Freeman said during a Friday press conference."Sometimes, that takes a little time and we ask people to be patient. We have to do this right."
So, your reaction as a trained first responder to somebody having breathing problems is to kneel on his throat until he has no pulse. Gotcha.
Hey NEWSWEEK! Where's the independent report? Not ONE PERSON IN THE WORLD is interested in an interview house report. NOT ONE.
There will never be an excuse that can be provided. If a HUMAN BEING IS TELLING A RESPONDING OFFICER HE CANT BREATHE YOU DONT RESPOND BY KNEELING ON HIS NECK WHILE HE DIES! Your white ass is gonna get FIRED!
If he had problems breathing and this cops did what they did and pin him down from the neck to the floor. This action aggravated his medical situation and he dye from this cops not giving a shit about it
Bullshit.
It's totally irrelevant
Then why did they keep him pinned down at the neck if he couldn’t breath cuff him and put him in the car so he can breath his not being able to breathe before he was pinned down is not an excuse to keep him pinned down at the neck to make it harder for him to breath
If that were the case they are still negligent. Kneeling on a man that is already dealing with respiratory/breathing issues on exacerbates his issue. murder
GTFOH!!!!! Don’t even try to get that cop any sympathy votes. He killed that man, discussion over.
Oh that sounds so much better, so he's saying he can't breathe BEF0RE he the murdering, corrupt cop held him down by his knee on Floyd's neck, so he was just 'helping', yeah stick with that lie
And so pinning by his neck helped how...?
Well....if this is so, the cops should have rushed him to the hospital and are negligent in not doing so! Doesn't matter anyway....so you can't get charged with murder if you contrain a sick person until they die? Horseshit.
Oh. My. God. Please stop with this nonsense. The whole force should be charged in a cover up if they go forward with this bs.
“Potential intoxicants”. Where there intoxicants or not? WTF?
Horseshit!
Bullshit!!!
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Because stopping someone breathing is a good remedy to ‘struggling to breathe’
So the knee to the neck was the officer providing first aid? Really?
This prosecutor should be fed to the horses.
Is it true that George Floyd and the cop were former colleagues?
Why would a prosecutor give ammunition to the defence team?🤔 I smell a rat.
And so what? They thought putting a knee on his neck was going to help him breathe better. It’s still a murder. Stop trying to spin it. 🤬
George Floyd was a bad hombre.
I call bullshit. Prosecutor already trying to make the case for the defense.
He was speaking while he was being pinned down at first. He was breathing at that point.
So obviously a knee to the neck would be the WORST thing to do.
If this guy gets away with third-degree murder, someone will have their knee on his neck before he knows what’s up All👮🏻♂️👮🏻♂️👮🏻♂️👮🏻♂️need to be behind bars
Horrible! Pure Murder!
Then why the need to pin him to the floor by his neck. Put him in cuffs in back of car. Call ambulance with a police escort
Even if George Floyd had underlying health problems or not if the man said he was having trouble breathing before he was thrown on the ground why didnt they call for Paramedics? Isn’t this standard procedures?
Sure
Out of respect, please change your avatar to GeorgeFloyd picture. BlackLivesMatters
So the guilty cop knows people in high places and his corrupt authorities are worming a corrupt way out for him😤
We stand against racial injustices. Donnet
The World knows by now that Mr. George Floyd could not breathe..tell us something new..not two words that 'inflame'..we know a trial will happen & the guilty will be punished..i want to know who Mr. George Floyd was..we already know what took him... '
African Americans havent been allowed to breathe for 400 years. Time’s up.
Bullshit
So he says he can't breathe while he's standing up and the TRAINED OFFICERS decide ok let's lay him on his stomach, you put your knee on his neck and you two kneel on his back and legs. That should help him breathe better. AND IN WHAT FUC**** UNIVERSE IS THAT NOT MURDER?
isn't that more the reason not to knee on his neck?
If George Floyd couldn't breathe before being pinned why didn't help they him instead of kneeling on his neck Is the Prosecutor white?
My ass
Here it comes...trying to find a way to not charge Derek Chauvin....I knew that would happen.
Really Send it to federal jurisdiction ...
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