Chauvin Murder Trial

[Irreligious Atheist]

911 dispatcher testifies officers pinned down George Floyd for so long she thought her video feed had frozen

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I can remember IA  saying that a choke hold can be an effective and safe way of incapacitating your opponent and citing some MMA fighters. I wonder if any of those MMA fighters would think keeping at it for NINE AND A HALF FUCKING MINUTES is a good idea.

And, yes, it turns out the infamous 8:46 is actually understating the amount of time he spent in the choke hold. And it looks like almost all that time is people underestimating the time he spent out cold.

And now I'm searching for a suitable song that's exactly 9:29 long (preferably with a big shift around 5:38) because it looks like my old use of Modest Mouse' "The Stars Are Projectors" is out of date. And all I'm finding are a live version of Gary Clark's "When the Train Comes In," Kurt Vile's "Walkin on a Pretty Day," and Grand Funk Railroad's "Inside Looking Out," and none of them really fit.

And looking through my external hard drive, I'm also finding Can's "Pinch" and Deadmau5's "The 16th Hour," as well as some classical pieces, but their timings are too variable to use as a time demonstration.

You don't know that he was choked to death. And those remarks weren't even about Floyd. They were about the religion of Anti-racism, which demands things that don't actually help their communities like a ban on chokeholds, defunding the police, and burning it all down so it can be built up from scratch (or their new demands, for non-blacks to stop posting Oprah memes because that's digital blackface, or don't be a member of white veganism. Yes, that's a real thing I just read about). Murder rates are higher than they've been in years. Crime rates are way up. Police funding is down in many areas. Billions of dollars in property damage. Everyone hates each other. This is what they asked for.

What was George Floyd's exact cause of death? One of the medical examiners says heart failure. They say if he was found in his home like that, the ruling would have been drug overdose.