(01 Jun 2020, 12:20 AM)Nukem Wrote: The most you could call this is manslaughter not murder. There was no intent to kill.
Like it or not he was a suspected criminal that resisted arrest and had to be subdued. Something did go wrong but it was not the intent of the police to do anything other than subdue.
Where the cop had him subdued should not have cause him to stop breathing or cause any injury but unless you have access to the coroners report it is impossible to say what happened.
Cops should not be punished if they did their job correctly but because of politics they most likely will be punished unfairly.
The cop Derek Chauvin literally had his leg on Floyd's neck and asked him to get up. Its really clear on the clip. Given that the clip is too much for our younger members to watch, I'm not posting it here. So, imagine a cop having you pinned down to the ground, and he has his leg on your neck. Then the cop asks you to get up. Can you get up? Then the powerless bystanders beg the cop to just let him breathe and the other cop comes towards the bystanders in a way that they don't interfere. Is that what you call duty?
He may have resisted arrest but he was begging that excuse for a human being to let him breathe. That was a literal submission. He deserves to be punished.