Reply To: Do our eyes tell us what happened to GEORGE FLOYD

@ubiq
There have been some interesting responses here that clarify the issue.

Your response however missed the point. The question is how kneeling stops the breathing, as the trachea is exposed in the front of the neck, not the back.

The answers that DO work are the ones that explain that the asphyxiation was due to the blood flow being restricted, not the difficulty breathing.

Again you answer the question “does a knee to the back of the neck stop someones breathing” ? You answered YES. On what basis? there doesn’t seem to pressure on the trachea!
Did You try it? i did.

I also asked if we can tell how hard he was kneeling.
The explanation of that question is as follows: Being that it doesnt seem that kneeling on the back of the neck restricts breathing, and yet at the same time the victim was calling out that he couldnt breath, perhaps it makes sense that if one is kneeling, even on the back of the neck, hard enough, then it can affect the trachea even though it is being protected by the spine. And we would have to say that even without the spine breaking, there is enough pressure , somehow, on the trachea to cause difficulty breathing. The question then is though, how can WE gauge how hard the officer was kneeling that we are able to accuse him of such?