Pool reporter notes: Most jurors examined their necks when Dr. Tobin asked them to.
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So much for the defense "establishing" that his knee was never on his neck the other day. No wonder the prosecution didn't object to those pictures.This witness is incredible, how can you argue with someone who has been studying this for 40 years?
It was the knee.
Maybe the nurse didn't do it because she already knew. Or maybe some people felt awkward doing it.ok, so the million dollar question... which one's didn't and why????
Chauvin’s defense lawyers are suggesting that drugs ― and not the 9 minutes and 29 seconds that Chauvin pressed his knee against Floyd’s neck ― caused Floyd’s death in May 2020.
“He says, ‘Attorney Crump, you should tell them that if Derek Chauvin feels so confident in that, he should volunteer during his case to get down on the floor in that courtroom and let somebody come and put their knee on his neck for 9 minutes and 29 seconds and be able to see if he can survive,’” Crump remembered Clooney writing to him.
“The experts will opine during this case that the average human being can go without oxygen from 30 seconds to 90 seconds — where George Floyd went without oxygen for over 429 seconds, and that’s why it was intentional what this officer did,” Crump added.
George Clooney Reportedly Offered Brutal Advice For The Derek Chauvin Trial | HuffPost
I think it was the perfect time to have him testify. And he's only the first one of the medical experts.If this witness holds up on cross, I think the State should have started with this guy!!! The jurors would be left with these images and explanations through all that other testimony and I think it would have diminshed some of the stings. JMO
Yes, and all that time they were torturing him and Floyd was begging them, they mocked him by saying he was the one taking up all the oxygen by talking. It should have been obvious to them that all the time he was saying, ah haa, or ahhh, he was trying to get air to his lungs. At least that what it seemed like to me.429 seconds. That is so powerful! Think of all the decisions we make in a split second.
429 seconds
429 seconds......... say it out loud and think about how long that is. Wow!
(respectfully snipped by me)It also discounts Chauvin's claim that Floyd was "fighting them the whole time." He wasn't fighting the officers, he was fighting to breathe and to stay alive.
Also, the manipulating his wrist and pushing it down goes to intent.
Sniped by me.(respectfully snipped by me)
I am presenting another perspective, even though I may (or may not) personally support that.
After all, Graham vs Connor says that the reasonableness of force should be judged based not from the view of a lay person, or a respiratory specialist, but,
"from the perspective of a reasonable officer, on the scene, rather than with the 20/20 vision of hindsight."
Graham v. Connor - Wikipedia
Graham v. Connor, 490 U.S. 386 (1989)
And if they are not, they should be.Sniped by me.
From everything we've learned, Officers are trained to assess that kind of risk, a reasonable Officer should be able to know the possible implications of their actions but that's just MOO.