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Quote Originally Posted by nightmarefish View Post

A lot of people don’t get this. People were talking about choke holds in the Eric Garner case as well. When a 350-400 man resists arrest you don’t have many options. George Floyd wasn’t quite as big but still a big dude, big enough that 3-4 cops couldn’t get him in the back of a cop car while handcuffed. In my younger days I used to bounce on the weekends and in my mind the safest, most effective way to get control of someone who was out of control was to always put them in a headlock. If you put a little squeeze on, they would usually chill the fuck out pretty quickly. It never once crossed my mind that a headlock was life threatening. Once again, the fuck up from the cops came from not helping when Floyd needed help.
You don't seem to get this. George Floyd was not putting up a fight prior to or after being handcuffed. He was also surrounded by armed officers.
An ambulance crew would have no troubles transferring that man into their vehicle
Officer Chauvin, while kneeling on his neck says “get up and get in the car”, repeatedly.
Had your chokeholds resulted in a broken neck or death your opinions would be different.

Consider the word chokehold. It describes a way to stop a person from breathing.
The word chokehold is overused. Anytime an officer gets close to someone’s neck retards like you start calling it a chokehold, it’s ridiculous. Floyd had 3-4 cops on him which makes it hard as fuck to breathe, I don’t care who you are. If you don’t believe me, have 4 of your friends lay on you without being anywhere around your neck and try to get up, you will start breathing heavily almost instantly. Problem is, Floyd was panicking and having trouble breathing well before they got on top of him so shit compounded. Watch the tape ffs, he wouldn’t let them put him in the cop car so they put him on the ground, is that part even disputable? I’d be willing to bet Chauvin had used that same kneel 100s of times to keep someone on the ground with the suspects not ever having in medical reaction. I don’t know for sure, but it was probably something he learned In training or close to it.

The cops did nothing wrong up to the point where they didn’t recognize Floyd was in trouble and give the man assistance.