>>17944592>implyingYou're arguing in direct contradiction to both all evidence we've seen, and in the eyes of the law.
The Hennepin County Medical Examiner’s office ruled Floyd’s death a homicide due to “cardiopulmonary arrest” from “law enforcement subdual, restraint, and neck compression.”
Lewis Nelson, director of the medical toxicology division at Rutgers New Jersey Medical School, told AP back in October that the medical examiner’s office and the expert witnesses called by prosecutors during the trial properly concluded that Floyd did not die of an overdose or because of his drug use.
Leo Beletsky, a third party opioid expert at Northeastern University in Boston who was also not involved in the trial, agreed, noting that Floyd didn’t exhibit the typical signs of opioid overdose.
During the trial itself, a jury presented with all the facts of the case unanimously agreed with the above assessments, and found the former officer guilty of murder and manslaughter.
Floyd's death was likely an avoidable tragedy, and it definitely doesn't take a knee on someone's neck and 3 people to subdue one single untrained person. He's pretty good proof that
>cops would obviously benefit from more formal training at effective submission grappling 
