Let's be honest. George Floyd killed George Floyd. Read the autopsy. He had 3 times a fatal dose of fentanyl in his system. He would've been dead by midnight. Chauvin was wrongfully convicted here.
Originally Posted by buzzlghtyr401
That actually speaks volumes about how corrupt medical examiners are and how the opioid crisis has been manufactured.
https://academic.oup.com/jat/article/36/3/182/887968
Therefore, despite this substantial data, a general guideline for interpretation of blood fentanyl concentrations concerning a possible intoxication cannot be given. Postmortem fentanyl concentrations cannot be used in isolation to determine whether intoxication occurred.
This is the most important sentence though: The physical state of the person, a possible drug tolerance and the pain level of the patient are also relevant.
So if George Floyd were intoxicated with fentanyl, he should be lying flat on the ground breathing twice a minute. In other words, ANY use of force with regards to George Floyd would have been completely unwarranted if he truly were suffering from fentanyl toxicity.
Yeah, I get that the reaction to his death was overblown, but it misses the point of what SHOULD have happened. There was a discussion of Congress taking away immunity from government officials. People in the private sector risk financial ruin if they pulled something like this, however because of a Supreme Court ruling that allows the police to be immune from lawsuits, the threat of being sued is virtually nonexistent among LE.
Because of this immunity, we have seen LE be completely out of hand. I can see hundreds of people in jail from 1-6 who would love to sue the shit out of those corrupt unethical MFs in LE.
This reflex that LE is usually Republican and we have to support them does not work with me. What the police did with George Floyd was completely moronic. They killed him, and fentanyl had nothing to do with it.
The reactions to this death, both the riots and the defund the police nonsense, were completely inappropriate. Holding LE to a similar standard of responsibility to those in the private sector makes the most sense to me.