Seattle didn't say anything about "comfortably." And you're obviously nit-picking about him being laid down on the "curb."
He claimed Floyd requested that he be allowed to "lie down and relax", and the police "allowed" him to do that on the curb.
You shouldn't put stuff in quotes that you made up. Seattle didn't say that. He said:
...lay on the curb to calm his anxiety.
And Floyd had repeatedly claimed he was claustrophobic. You know "his anxiety" that could be calmed outside of an enclosed vehicle (of course, completely ignoring that he was originally in a smaller vehicle).
What the cameras show is Floyd being dragged out of the car while handcuffed (instead of being held inside it), pushed to the road, and pinned there by a knee on his neck. That is nobody's idea of being allowed to lie down and relax.
Your failing eyesight or ignorance of very basic physiology and physics is astounding. As shown to you, with specific timestamps (read no excuse for you not to have watched them, and YouTube even has frame by frame), Floyd obviously wasn't dragged out of the car. Three officers clearly did try to get him held in the car, but after failing to push him in (due to him resisting), tried to pull as well (which he resisted by pushing out the other side). If you can't see that for yourself, you're clearly either delusional or willfully ignorant of the facts.
Again, no one ever said "relax." Stop arguing straw men you make up.
I'm not ignorant of the fact that putting a gun in the face of a black man in the middle of a street full of bystanders, who is obviously not mentally competent or able to hear and follow commands easily but is otherwise threatening no one and has not threatened anyone (not even the victim of the alleged crime), is standard police procedure in Minneapolis. I presumed that is why the policeman had his gun out and ready to fire - safety already off, as the video shows - in the first place.
The fact that such behavior is standard police procedure is a large part of the problem. Floyd was - as Floyd himself appears to realize, in a confused sense - very close to being shot. His fear was justified.
Your ignorance of police procedure seems willful at this point. As shown to you, with specific timestamps (read no excuse for you not to have watched them), Lane clearly didn't have a gun in hand until Floyd repeatedly refused orders, as seen by his reflection in Floyd's car windows and tapping on the glass with his flashlight. People who are "obviously not mentally competent" can still shoot you. That's why mens rea is a factor in convictions and sentencing. It takes seconds for an unknown suspect to turn deadly. Yes, Floyd's fear was completely justified, as he was presenting as an uncooperative risk, with the officer having no way of knowing if he was armed or reaching for a weapon. But I guess you think police shouldn't take any precautions to protect their own lives. That's despicable, but expected from you.
We'll get to that ignorant claim about the safety below.
I just pointed out you were mistaken. I have no "wishes" in such matters, except to counter the repetition by which such bs works.
No, you just made your usual bare proclamation, without any argument or reasoning at all. Just because you're too ignorant of anything but Howard Zinn revisionist history, doesn't justify your meaningless opinions.
Nope.
The long video has the body cam footage from both policemen who's cameras showed the circumstances of Floyd's removal from the car and forcible restraint on the ground. There is no footage that shows him "lunging out", and no footage that shows him escaping from either the handcuffs or the handholds of the police. He was surrounded and held throughout, and pushed to the ground while handcuffed.
Then you should already know that your opinion is pure nonsense, but apparently you're too obtuse. All the footage shows Floyd clearly lunging out, if only you had some very small comprehension of basic physics/physiology instead of your foregone conclusions.
No one has claimed Floyd ever "escaping from either the handcuffs or the handholds of the police," so this is just another bullshit straw man from you. And neither cuffs nor handholds constitute having a suspect under control. Again, your ignorance of basic police work is astounding.
could have not repeatedly resisted arrest, could have not forced his way out the other side of the car, and bystanders could have not exacerbated the situation.
None of that happened.
It all happened. It's all right there in the videos, for anyone to see for themselves. But there's no accounting for your motivated reasoning.
"Initial intent" doesn't change what in fact happened.
You're right. They could have intended to pull him out and then, for some odd reason, ended up, factually, trying to push him back in with all their body weight, until he asked to be laid down.
And drugs in his system, for which he had already gone to the hospital a week or so earlier, significantly contributed to his death.
So?
Oh, we get how blithely you ignore evidence.
If you still believe that "three police were pulling him out," you obviously don't understand very basic physiology or physics.
You shouldn't put stuff in quotes that you made up, and I did not post. It's dishonest.
You did post:
...two or three police were pulling him out and forcing him down...
That's so hilarious that you're so dishonest you even deny what you clearly posted and there's a record of. Good luck with the mental gymnastics to justify that one.
And yet he did, right there on camera. And I could have done the same easily - no "superhuman strength" was involved. Handcuffed as he was, Floyd had no way to resist.
Wow, so now you believe in superhumans, as long as it justifies your foregone conclusions and clear bias.
You could not have pulled Floyd from the car with one hand, and you're delusional if you really think you could. Again, very basic physics and physiology. So we'll call it ignorance to be charitable.
Approached at gun point, as shown; pointed the gun at Floyd's face, with the safety off, in the circumstances visible on camera.
Didn't approach at gun point, as the video clearly shows to anyone with an ounce of honesty. He very clearly tapped on the window with his flashlight and held up his other, empty hand.
He did end up pointing the gun at an uncooperative, unknown, and potential threat. You also seem completely ignorant about guns. Lane was carrying a Sig Sauer P320, and the video clearly shows that his wasn't modified to have an external safety. There's only the breakdown level and slide lock, but no thumb safety. Just more evidence that you have no clue what you're looking at when you attempt to watch these videos.
As noted: that doesn't happen to white people very often. As you admit, it's standard police procedure when they "feel threatened", which when dealing with black men they very often do.
There were 511 officers killed in felonious incidents and 540 offenders from 2004 to 2013, according to FBI reports. Among the total offenders, 52 percent were white, and 43 percent were black.
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From 1980 to 2013, there were 2,269 officers killed in felonious incidents, and 2,896 offenders. The racial breakdown of offenders over the 33-year period was on par with the 10-year period: 52 percent were white, and 41 percent were black.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...r-white-offenders-more-likely-to-kill-police/
So about 12-13% of the population accounts for 41-43% of officer deaths. That makes black men, objectively, more dangerous to officers.
But way to rub your nose in your own ignorance.
