He wouldn’t have. He already had over dosed.
That doesn’t seem to have been important to the jury. He should have been getting him medical help.
Chauvin is a POS, nothing to indicate he is/was a racist POS.
LOL
How many times am I going to have to tell you, the jury is not a bunch of omnipotent gods. It is not some supreme arbiter of all things logical and philosophical.
It is a blob of imperfect human beings.
Saying “well the jury” is not a punch line of any kind, nor does it relieve you of the burden of arguing your position.
You should watch the documentary.
He did get medical help. The jury felt they had to rule guilty.
You should watch the documentary. Chauvin was very concerned about Floyd that day and called for medical help. He followed the documented procedure and waited for the medics to arrive. They screwed around and got there late.
Now chauvin may be a racist but it had nothing to do with Floyd’s death.
Back to the original subject:
That lawyer Romines amuses me. At first I thought he was unnecessarily stoking the flames, but then realized he’s just staunchly defending his guy.
He and Scheffler seem to be playing a good cop/bad cop routine, whether it was intentional or not.
“No, here’s what happened, he is being interrogated after the most stressful situation of his life and an officer is asking him leading questions trying to get him to agree with him. And that’s why you don’t talk to police,” Romines replied.
Great advice.
Reminds me of the “ shut the fuck up” guys.
Going off of the topic at hand. Paint roller vs Gun. Have it cued up to where the action starts. Looks like a bad shoot to me.
Best line of that video is ‘we’re here to help you’. Lol!
I had meant to reply to your comment earlier but let it slip. I had never heard it put this way, but that is an illuminating comment. Another take I have heard is that ninety percent of the cops are good and ten percent are bad but that the ninety percent will cover for the ten percent.
I will say up-front that I think being a cop is one of the most thankless jobs out there and I would never want to do it myself. By and large I respect law enforcement greatly and am always respectful in my interactions with them, which thankfully have been most limited to traffic stops. We also had an officer from our local police department come to our HOA to assist in setting up a neighborhood watch program, for which we were very grateful. My point is that I am not reflexively anti-police.
At the same time, there have been enough incidents where cops were in the wrong to make me realize that I can not automatically give the cop the benefit of the doubt whenever a story like this comes out. That is why when this story first broke I said I wanted to see how this would play out.
For another example, there was this article in the Los Angeles Times recently which made me think of your earlier post:
I would hope that if I ever have to call the police for something like this I would not have to go through the same thing.
There’s a really good book called Mistakes Were Made (but not by me), in which a chapter is dedicated to exactly this topic.
People’s reflexive and naive trust in the police system prevented them from realizing they were the target of police aggression. They ended up confessing to crimes they did not commit.
They would have avoided years of incarceration and incalculable inconvenience by demanding a lawyer and refusing to speak without one present.
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What most people don’t realize is abuse by police is almost never actually physical, it is things like this and violating due process, this mostly happens by detectives and by District Attorneys.