Court docs reveal ‘extreme’ public pressure on prosecutors in George Floyd case
According to the deposition of a former Hennepin County prosecutor, the county’s medical examiner told her in a phone call that there “were no medical indications of asphyxia or strangulation.”
During her deposition, Sweasy also discussed a revealing conversation she said she had the day after Floyd’s death when she asked Hennepin County Medical Examiner Dr. Andrew Baker about the autopsy.
“I called Dr. Baker early that morning to tell him about the case and to ask him if he would perform the autopsy on Mr. Floyd,” she explained.
“He called me later in the day on that Tuesday and he told me that there were no medical findings that showed any injury to the vital structures of Mr. Floyd’s neck. There were no medical indications of asphyxia or strangulation,” Sweasy said, according to the transcript.
“He said to me, ‘Amy, what happens when the actual evidence doesn’t match up with the public narrative that everyone’s already decided on?’ And then he said, ‘This is the kind of case that ends careers.’”
Derek Chauvin is an innocent man. I don’t understand why he is still in prison.
The linked story indicates that several attorneys with the Prosecutors office resigned rather than charge Chauvin and the other officers, I never heard that little detail before. That’s on the media.
On the North River 
This was obvious from the get-go to those of us utilizing operating synapses. You gotta wonder how much more of this we’ll be subjected to until things go loud?
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The Floyd/Chauvin case is a lot more complicated than “He was high on Fentanyl”.
Yes…George Floyd had Fentanyl and other drugs in his system. Enough to possibly be
lethal. But I saw the video of his arrest. Chauvin and three other cops put their ENTIRE WEIGHT on top of Floyd pinning him to the ground AFTER he was handcuffed and KEPT HIM THERE for several minutes. Sometime during that time he stopped breathing. Possibly due to the Fentanyl. Possibly as a result of the weight causing positional asphyxiation. No way to know for sure. But if they had NOT been standing on him after he was handcuffed and instead had been paying attention to him they would have noticed he wasn’t breathing and perhaps he may have been resuscitated.
There is simply no way to know if he could have been saved. But the actions of the cops standing on him were reprehensible and qualify for charges of involuntary manslaughter. Just because George Floyd was a useless waste of criminal skin does NOT grant cops the right to do what they did and they NEED to be held accountable for their conduct. Next time they the person they stand on top of deliberately resulting in death may be someone with NO RECORD who did NOTHING WRONG.
We have laws and standards. If they don’t apply to cops they should NOT EXIST. NOBODY should be exempt from them. In this case they cops contributed to a death with no reason to justify their conduct.
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Again, the autopsy did not show that the police caused his death.
I didn’t make a snap judgement that the police were railroaded, I’ve read the entire details of the case carefully. The police tried to get Floyd into the back of the police car but he struggled violently against them. Putting him on the ground and kneeling on his neck was, at that time, police procedure and deemed preferable to letting him lunge around on his feet where he could have caused an injury to himself or someone else.
Don’t equate this case with other cases where the person being arrested did not resist and was beaten or even shot by a bad cop. This wasn’t that.
“Saw the video of his arrest”… that is why those carefully edited and out of context videos are shown, non-stop and including the inflammatory commentary of the talking heads.
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“I saw the video”. You saw what you were supposed to see, and then made your judgment based upon that edited propaganda…as did most everyone else willing to hang a cop. One really must wonder what it will take for people to realize just how badly they are being duped: did not the scamdemic do it for you? How about the stolen election? Or the ‘sudden, unexplained deaths’? Or the laptop from hell? Or the ‘mostly peaceful demonstrations’? January 6th prisoners? Trump “indictments”? Seriously: what’s it going to take?
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