>>13853603>I'm an relative expert at controlling other human beings with my hands.Just because YOU could does not mean the average police officer could, if what you say is even true.
>I mean, it's literally knowable, compression on any part of the respiratory airway can lead to respiratory depression.Firstly, how does Chauvin putting his knee on Floyd's scapula restrict the airway?
Secondly, people survive prone holds all the time even if the trachea is compressed.
Thirdly, Floyd was speaking while restrained showing his trachea was NOT compressed.
The only argument that exists for Chauvin contributing to Floyd's death is that the stress of being restrained and interacting with the police was the straw that broke the camel's back and sent Floyd into cardiac arrest, which could only happen to someone like Floyd with extensive cardiac pathology, high on fentanyl, and exerting himself resisting arrest thus increasing the metabolic demand on his heart. This IS unknowable, because it remains possible that even if Chauvin had done nothing, or had just left him in the car, he would've gone into cardiac arrest anyway.
It's also irrelevant. Even if Chauvin DID contribute to Floyd's death, you can't criminalise police officers from doing their job just because it might stress some druggie out and kill him. Chauvin followed his training and did not break a single law in the act of restraining Floyd. I return to my previous example of a police officer knocking on a door to execute a search warrant. That could be a stressor that kills some druggie just as a prone hold could be, but no one would suggest convicting a police officer of any crime for knocking on a door.
If the prone hold places an undue risk on a criminal (there is no evidence this is true, but let's assume it is) then the blame lies with the PD that taught Chauvin to use this technique in the first place.
There is no reasonable interpretation of the facts that indicts Chauvin.
