Mr Hammer wrote on Apr 8
th, 2021 at 11:57am:
Prime Minister for Canyons wrote on Apr 8
th, 2021 at 11:51am:
Mr Hammer wrote on Apr 8
th, 2021 at 11:47am:
Is a contributing factor able to bring the sentence down? What number is long enough to prevent more riots?
I wouldnt have thought so to the first question. Because the crime is about the intent. And as for the second who can say? I would think non-guilty probably leads to riots, and any reduction in sentence below the minimum for that crime may also lead to riots.
The impression of the defence from FOX is that Chauvin has to be prosecuted and not police detainment procedure. He has to be punished as a rogue and not a representative of the force.
the I would suggest they are losing the case..
https://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/world/derek-chauvin-trial-asphyxiation-li...A doctor has testified that George Floyd’s final moments of his life can be seen in a video taken by a bystander during the incident where he died after former Minneapolis policeman Derek Chauvin knelt on his neck for more than nine minutes.
On day nine of Chauvin’s trial, Dr Martin Tobin, a pulmonary expert, reviewed the video in court in front of jurors.
“At the beginning you can see he’s conscious. You can see slight flickering. And then it disappears,” Dr Tobin said.
“So one second he’s alive and one second he’s no longer,” Dr Tobin said.
“You can see his eyes, he’s conscious, and then you see that he isn’t. That’s the moment the life goes out of his body,” Dr Tobin stated.
Floyd, he said, struggled and tried to breathe as officers restrained him.
Dr Tobin testified that the lack of enough oxygen caused damage to Floyd’s brain and ultimately made his heart stop.
He told the court that Floyd died as a result of a “low level of oxygen” caused by shallow breathing that was the result of the three officers restraining him.
He also testified that the video showed Floyd “moving his hip to try and rock the right side of his body to try and get air”.
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“You can see him again pushing down on the street to get air in. And there is movements of his hip,” Dr Tobin said.
“You may miss, but he’s having to use all his internal spine to just try and get air into that right side of the body.”
Prosecutors explained to Dr Tobin that the jurors may have heard one of the officers say, “if you could speak, you can breathe” during the trial. They asked Dr Tobin if that is a true statement.
“It is a true statement, but it gives you an enormous false sense of security,” he said.
Certainly, at the moment that you are speaking, you are breathing. But it doesn’t tell you that you’re going to be breathing five seconds later.”
Earlier, a police use-of-force expert has testified in the trial of Derek Chauvin that the former Minneapolis policeman used “deadly force” on George Floyd at a time when it was not appropriate to use any force.
Los Angeles Police Seargent Jody Stiger, a police witness for the prosecution, said that “no force should have been used” on Floyd when he was pinned to the ground by Chauvin last May.
When asked by prosecutors for his opinion on how much force was reasonable for Chauvin to use on Floyd after Floyd was handcuffed, placed in the prone position and not resisting.
“My opinion is that no force should have been used once he was in that position,” Sgt Stiger said.
Sgt Stiger said Chauvin had put Floyd at risk of positional asphyxia, a key point of the prosecution’s defence, meaning Floyd died from a loss of oxygen.
Sgt Stiger said that even being handcuffed and in a prone position can make it difficult to breathe.
“When you add body weight to that, it just increases the possibility of death,” he said.
Sgt Stiger also said that Chauvin did not follow pain guidelines with Floyd when the officer was on top of him, saying Chauvin did not ease up on the pressure applied to the 46-year-old man.
“At that point, it’s just pain,” he told the court.
Sgt Stiger’s testimony came after Chauvin’s defence team said that Floyd’s please of “I can’t breathe” constituted resisting arrest.The testimony from Sgt Stiger came on the eighth day of the trial of Chauvin, who has been charged with murdering Floyd.
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