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Originally Posted by White Out 403
Is anyone making this case? Here anyways? I don't think so but feel free to correct me if I'm wrong.
Being high, resisting arrest, and, complaining about not being able to breathe before being put on the ground does hurt the prosecutions ability to prove intent and murder 2 though.
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None of those things make it seem any less intentional.
Being high? So what? How does that impact whether it was intentional? Does being high justify 8 minutes on the neck?
Resisting arrest? Really? That was pretty light resistance, and certainly doesn't do anything to justify 8 minutes on the neck.
Complaining about not being able to breathe? You think putting a knee on someone's neck for 8 minutes
after they expressed breathing trouble makes it
less intentional?
Come on now. None of these things do what you think. I'm not sure Murder 2 is going to stick regardless, but none of these things hurt the case, and the last one can easily be used to improve it.
The argument is that 8 minutes on the neck makes it intentional. It's purposeful and excessive, and none of what you listed makes it less purposeful or less excessive. At a certain point during the 8 minutes, the argument is either that the officer is one of the most profoundly stupid officers around and completely ignorant of what he was doing, or that he intentionally kept the knee there until Floyd was dead, and that's Murder 2.
I'm not sure how anything in the video makes Murder 2 any more difficult than it already was. I guess it takes Murder 1 out of the question so... yay for that.