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Police body cam shows Chauvin’s knee was actually on Floyd’s back and shoulder not his neck. Is this trial over with a not guilty verdict?

Updated 1 day ago:

Anonymous- you are referring to the video shot by a bystander. The angle it was shot at makes it appear that the knee is on the neck. 

The body cam footage has an angle from above and it shows the actual placement of the knee is on the upper back ... not the neck. 

Updated 1 day ago:

Why wouldn’t he keep his knee in his back for 9 min ???

Floyd has a history of extreme violence ... Floyd was out of his mind on drugs ...Floyd was already resisting arrest ... Floyd refused to be placed in a police cruiser 

Any responsible police officer would restrain Floyd ... to give him a chance to flee or to harm others would be unbelievably irresponsible 

Updated 1 day ago:

Crazy - yes that is what you do. That is exactly what the officers did... so we not. Agree they did exactly what they were supposed to do.

While sitting alone in the back of the police car Floyd was screaming he couldn’t breath and begged to be let out

The officers let him out at his request but continued to restrain him for his safely hand geb safety of others  

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  • 1 day ago

    That body cam footage was taken at a different time that when the cop has his knee on the man's neck.

    Either way, you do NOT place your knee on someone who is in the handcuffed prone position - neck or back.

    You get them on their butt or feet and into the car for transport.

  • 1 day ago

    The 10-second scrap of body-cam video you cite is incomplete, Dru Zod.  If you have been watching the trial on C-SPAN2 (as I am), you would have seen the truth for that tiny snippet:  It was when the ambulance had finally arrived and the EMTs wanted to get Chauvin out of the way to take his pulse.  Go back to the first few days and see all of the available videos, including the testimony today from so-far two expert investigators, one of them from California and the other still on the stand after the lunch break:  Chauvin's knees are clearly shown to be on the carotid artery of the neck for one, and on the back for the other.  At the same time, Chauvin was using a pain-hold for one of George Floyd's hands with the handcuffs NOT double-locked (which means those cuffs would keep tightening).  

    More than NINE MINUTES with the full weight of a policeman and his gear belt ON THE CAROTID ARTERY while lying in a PRONE POSITION handcuffed!  Even the trainer of Chauvin, the expert on use of force, and the Minneapolis Police Captain himself have said Chauvin was wrong.  And this is not even taking into consideration the repeated pleas from the detained George Floyd that "I can't breathe!"  

    The people videotaping had their videos supported by the security cameras in various positions around the Cup Foods, D.Z.  The witnesses' footage was shown in conjunction with the official videos, second by second.  C-SPAN2 will probably re-air the trial, so go back and view it yourself instead of grasping at 10-second post-ambulance snippet.  The ambulance crew was trying to see if the handcuffed man was alive, but they had trouble getting Chauvin to move.  The body was rolled onto its side in that excerpt (carefully edited by the defense attorney) so that it could be lifted onto the gurney.  NINE MINUTES after the excessive murderous force began, this is when that body-cam of a late-arriving fifth police officer showed what you are heralding.  

  • ?
    Lv 7
    1 day ago

    Floyd is dead, and it wasn't from a drug overdose. The cop squeezed the air out of him.

  • 1 day ago

    Even Chauvin knows he is going in. 

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  • Jim2
    Lv 7
    1 day ago

    TV showed it was on his NECK. The trial shows it was on his NECK.

  • Oh bullshit.

    We can all see where his knee is at.

  • Anonymous
    1 day ago

    Next, you need to get by not offering assistance to a person who said they can't breathe. Next, you need to get by why he keeps his knee on Floyd for 9 minutes when he was handcuffed and 3 other officers present. Next, you need to get by the audio where one officer requests that Chauvin roll Floyd on his side and he refuses.

  • Anonymous
    1 day ago

    If it were so obvious from the cam that the knee wasn't on the neck and that nothing criminal happened, there wouldn't be a trial.

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