Chauvin Murder Trial

[Rev. Rye]

Now that it looks like the timeline for just how long George Floyd was strangled needs to be revised, here's a little scenario for everyone to bear in mind: There are three songs in this post, and I want you to imagine that for every second these three songs play, you have a man's knee pushing your neck to the ground.

First, imagine this song:



At this point, you're losing your ability to breathe. You keep telling the man who's doing this, and he simply tells you to stop talking. Best case scenario is that he believes that if you can talk, you can breathe. Unfortunately, this is not the case. Eventually, you realise that you're not getting out of this alive. You call out for your family, and they cannot come. At some point, people have started to crowd around. At least one person is begging the man to get his knee off you, arguing that surely you're no longer going to resist. He refuses.

Then, when that song is over, this song represents the second stage: 



At this point, you're flailing and convulsing. These seizures represent the last throes of your nervous system. At the end of this, you've lost consciousness, and you never regain it. The crowd is concerned about your well-being, but it turns out the guy whose knee is still on your neck is most concerned about whether his own knee was scratched. And it's still on your neck, and it won't get up until the end of the next phase:




At the beginning of this phase, you've lost consciousness. You may very well be dead. At some point, they actually try to take your pulse. They don't find one. But they're not going to get up until the song ends.  

And why did this happen? Because you paid for a pack of smokes with a counterfeit $20 bill.