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The following is an account of what is seen in the video which was filmed by a bystander, and details of his being pronounced dead.
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(Chauvin, Kueng, Thoa and Lane relate to the 4 police officers mentioned in the text)
Chauvin kneels on Floyd's neck
" While Floyd lay on his chest with his cheek to the ground, Chauvin knelt on his neck. Floyd stopped moving around 8:20, though he was still conscious. Multiple witnesses began to film the encounter, and their videos were circulated widely on the internet. At 8:20, a witness across the street began recording video showing Chauvin kneeling on Floyd's neck, Kueng applying pressure to Floyd's torso, and Lane applying pressure to Floyd's legs, while Thao stood nearby. This witness stopped filming when one of the officers ordered him to leave. Also at 8:20, a second person, standing near the entrance of Cup Foods, began recording the incident. Floyd can be heard repeatedly saying "I can't breathe", "Please", and "Mama". Lane then asked for an ambulance for Floyd, "for one bleeding from the mouth". Floyd repeated at least 16 times that he could not breathe. At one point a witness said: "You got him down. Let him breathe." After Floyd said, "I'm about to die", Chauvin told him to "relax". An officer asked Floyd, "What do you want?"; Floyd answered, "Please, the knee in my neck, I can't breathe."
At approximately 8:22, the officers called for an ambulance on a non-emergency basis, escalating the call to emergency status a minute later. Chauvin continued to kneel on Floyd's neck. A passerby yelled to Floyd, "Well, get up, get in the car, man", and Floyd, still handcuffed and face down on the pavement, responded, "I can't", while Chauvin's knee remained on his neck. Floyd said, "My stomach hurts, my neck hurts, everything hurts", requested water, and begged, "Don't kill me." One witness pointed out that Floyd was bleeding from the nose. Another told the officers that Floyd was "not even resisting arrest right now". Thao countered that Floyd was "talking, he's fine"; a witness replied that Floyd "ain't fine ... Get him off the ground ... You could have put him in the car by now. He's not resisting arrest or nothing. You're enjoying it. Look at you. Your body language explains it." As Floyd continued to cry for help, Thao said to witnesses: "This is why you don't do drugs, kids."
By 8:25, Floyd appeared unconscious, and bystanders confronted the officers about Floyd's condition. Chauvin pulled out mace to keep bystanders away as Thao moved between them and Chauvin. Bystanders repeatedly yelled that Floyd was "not responsive right now" and urged the officers to check his pulse. Kueng checked Floyd's wrist but found no pulse; the officers did not attempt to provide Floyd with medical assistance while he was on the ground. According to the criminal complaint against Chauvin, Lane asked Chauvin twice if they should move Floyd onto his side, and Chauvin said no.
Medical response and death
At 8:27, a Hennepin County ambulance arrived. Shortly thereafter, a young relative of the owner of Cup Foods attempted to intervene, but was pushed back by Thao. Emergency medical technicians checked Floyd's pulse. Chauvin kept his knee on Floyd's neck for almost a minute after the ambulance arrived, despite Floyd being silent and motionless.
Around 8:29, Floyd was lifted by paramedics onto a stretcher, then loaded into an ambulance. Lane boarded the ambulance and checked Floyd's pulse at his neck, and a medic instructed him to perform cardiopulmonary resuscitation. A medical device was placed on Floyd's chest to provide mechanical chest compressions, and the ambulance departed for Hennepin County Medical Center.
En route, the ambulance requested assistance from the Minneapolis Fire Department. At 8:32, firefighters arrived at Cup Foods; according to their report, the police officers gave no clear information regarding Floyd's condition or whereabouts, which delayed their ability to find the ambulance. Meanwhile, the ambulance reported that Floyd was entering cardiac arrest and again requested assistance, asking firefighters to meet them at the corner of 36th Street and Park Avenue. Five minutes later, the fire department reached the ambulance; two fire department medics who boarded the ambulance found Floyd unresponsive and pulseless.
Floyd was pronounced dead at 9:25 at the Hennepin County Medical Center emergency room."
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the policeman was wrong! completely lost control of the situation the moment an unnecessary emergency occurs. professionalism was lacking. but at the same time, Floyd was a thug shit. Both sides are wrong, from the police killing him and creating a totally unnecessary situation (which was seen days later also in the United States, a lot of angry people protest) and Floyd, who pointed a gun at a pregnant woman. and he was a fucking thug. the fuck is that there were demonstrations all over the world, even though people knew who George Floyd was. The actions of the police were inhumane, and what this criminal had already done was even more inhumane. well, one less shit in the world, and less 2 other uncontrolled and undisciplined cops on the streets of the United States. that's my point.
Anyway, I believe Karma has come to both sides. Karma knocked on the door of these police officers (who perhaps should have done wrong things) with the right person, who was Floyd's thug (who ended up dying, which he may have already done, which is to have already killed someone innocent)
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I feel bad for people like you from 3rd world countries, pretending like you know what you’re talking about. “Thug”? Aren’t you Brazilian? You people are all thugs
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The biggest bandit here is you, who is defending a bandit. If a guy pointed a gun at the person you love the most, what would you do? oh of course! for those who have 2 neurons, they can think that you would ask the guy where there is a drug dealer to start taking drugs, while his wife would be being murdered. You call us thugs, but the biggest killers in the world are you, who bomb the fucking Middle East with chemical weapons, who were the ONLY COUNTRY IN THE WORLD that dropped a nuclear bomb on Japan killing thousands of innocents, which has several racist organizations and neo-Nazi groups in your country, who do not even respect their own culture, have killed all the Indians that existed, who cannot walk peacefully through the streets of their country because you don't know if the person walking next to you is carrying bombs through your body and could explode at any moment, a country where you can't trust to drop your child off at school or even go to a coffee shop to have your breakfast because a madman with guns can appear shooting at everyone. With all these "qualities", I think being a crook is still profit. Now if we are third world countries, then shame on your face and stop coming to Brazil to spend your "valuable money" and shake your ass at carnival and have sex with gays, you fucking cute twink!
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not reading, also I’m not American but nice try
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as much as you are not, your lack of respect does not justify where you are from or what you do. I also have a veiled hatred for several things, and I don't attack people because of it, because I have the head to understand that that person has nothing to do with what I hate, for example, I hate the government of Emanuel Macron, I hate some French people who tarnish the image of their country, but I don't hate all French people because they are ordinary people, it's not their fault what happens in their country. another funny thing, you're not american right? and he's defending an American bandit. So you're a bootlicker who follows the masses of people, who raises the flag of something that everyone raises and you don't even know why you're doing it. I thought you were an American saying that, but the worst thing is that even if you're not an American, you think as if you were one. this just reinforces that you don't even have the morals to say something also if that's the case. if you disagree with my opinion, act respectfully, fairly and morally, and use your argument to the same degree that I used mine against my thesis. Or are you stupid enough to know how to do this? I don't like to offend people, but unfortunately I'm just the mirror of someone who addresses me in some way
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you got a lot of time on your hands huh?
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tldr brother
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