Fri Apr 09, 2021 4:30 pm
^^^That's actually not a bad idea.
He started saying, "I can't breathe," in the back of the squad car untouched. He asked to be let out so he could lay on the ground, which they obliged him with. The spot he's laying is where he chose to lay down. Chauvin came over to show the rookies a thing or two and used the knee restraint he was taught to hold him there.
He was talking at first so he obviously didn't have enough weight on him to compress his airway until it was blocked and he couldn't breathe because if Chauvin did that he wouldn't be able to talk.
Not being able to breathe is a textbook symptom of a fentanyl overdose. Technically he died from cardiopulmonary arrest....caused by some very severe underlying health conditions, Floyd being higher than anyone alive can possibly ever know, and freaking out knowing he was going to die.
I think it'd be pretty hard to choke someone out with their knee to the back of their neck at the angle Floyd's windpipe was in relation to the ground, not to mention his size. If Floyd was on his back with his windpipe facing straight up? Then I think he'd be able to asphyxiate and possibly kill him. It takes a lot to choke someone out when they're in a choke hold and you basically have your arms around their neck leveraging your arm strength like they're in a vice.
Chauvin isn't some big guy....maybe a couple hundred pounds??? With a knee on the ground supporting a lot, maybe most, of his weight....and the angle he's pressing into Floyd's neck....and the size and strength of Floyd?
There's no way Chauvin kneeling on his neck would choke him out. It's enough weight to stop him from being able to get up, maybe enough to mess with his breathing a little but I don't think it'd be possible to kill him when the pressure point is the side of his neck where it's the strongest. Not the front where it's the weakest.
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