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Normally, I like to capture the little creatures that find their way into our house and release them outside. They face such long odds making it from an egg to maturity that it seems a shame to kill them. I bumped the mirror while shooting and the moth felt the vibrations and fled. I'm afraid my rescue mission was a failure.
New George Floyd Video
If you haven't seen the newly-released video from the George Floyd arrest, let's just say it throws some light on what went down. The guy was clearly blasted out of his mind of drugs. The toxicology report said that he was well past a possible lethal concentration of fentanyl in his bloodstream. He was saying he couldn't breathe long before he was on the ground. That's a symptom of fentanyl overdose right there.
The other thing that hit me was that the guy was the size of an NFL linebacker. He was a huge man and he was almost all muscle. He resisted arrest for quite some time.
Joining the police force isn't a suicide pact. The cops showed restraint with George, but in the end, they needed to get him off the streets for everyone's safety. He made it as difficult as he could.
Jason Whitlock, writing at Outkick the Coverage, penned a take with which I agree 100%. Here's an excerpt.
The videos show police verbally and physically struggling to get Floyd to comply. Floyd appears panicked, disoriented, desperate and totally non-compliant. He complains that he can’t breathe while standing on two feet. He claims his mother just died and that he can’t sit in the back of the police car because he’s claustrophobic. He repeatedly begs the officers not to shoot him. He worms the upper part of his body out of the police car and asks to lay on the ground...The behavior of the police officers seems appropriate and restrained given Floyd’s level of resistance and bizarre conduct. The footage reasonably explains how and why Floyd wound up on the ground with multiple officers restraining him...The George Floyd case is not a race crime. No rational person can watch that footage and conclude the police were motivated by Floyd’s black race.
Similarly, no rational person can expect the news media to cover this honestly. They wanted a Horst Wessel in the worst way and they got him in the person of George Floyd.
My favorite (?) part of the video is where it starts. He’s in his car, with the doors and windows closed. He doesn’t seem particularly claustrophobic in that situation. So his later claims seem less like an honest complaint, and more like just trying to weasel his way out of the police car (and possibly not end up at the police station). But I’m sure that just slipped past the MSM, which I have decided stands for Mainly Socialist Media.
ReplyDeleteSpeaking as someone who has known addicts, his words meant nothing at all. He was beyond wasted.
ReplyDeleteSurely, the words "I can't breathe" ought to mean something. And surely the cops ought to have considered it at least possible that he was speaking the truth when he said that.
ReplyDeleteWhen a person is suffocating, as it appears that Floyd was doing, he is literally *unable* to "comply" or to behave in a rational manner. That's why a drowning person so frequently also causes the drowning death of the person who tries to rescue him.