The court released the transcript of the encounter the police had with Floyd from beginning to end based on the bodycam of the officer who was 1st on the scene. And from the transcript it is clear that the video the world saw was taken completely out of context. George Floyd started yelling about how he can’t breathe over and over from the very beginning, refusing to get into the back of the police car after he was placed under arrest and insisted on laying down on the ground. This was way before Derek Chauvin, the officer who put his knee on Floyd’s neck showed up at the scene. And when the cops started to think that he wasn’t lying and that maybe he actually couldn’t breathe, they speak of him having a medical emergency. He was out of his mind on a terrible combination of drugs, fentanyl and meth, and people extremely high on drugs that get overly excited go into what is called delirium which can result in death. But what is clear is that he was yelling he can’t breathe way before a knee was placed on his neck and that the knee on his neck was not the reason he couldn’t breathe. If the liberal mayor of Minneapolis would have released this bodycam footage the world would have realized that George Floyd was not murdered.
See pages 12,13 where he is yelling he can’t breathe way before Chauvin puts him on the ground.
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