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Bolding my own. It does not matter how you restrain someone suffering from EDS or how gently you do so. They will push until they suffer cardiac arrest. No matter what you choose to do. And not restraining someone suffering from it risks both the general public and the individual in question...

I didn't glide over it. I even pointed out that individuals suffering from EDS will frequently push against restraints until they suffer cardiac arrest, which is what killed Floyd. As far as the cops knew he was doing what people suffering from it tend to do while they did what they were meant...

Bolding mine. If they thought he had excited delirium (and they're on film saying they thought he did) holding them down until EMS arrives with ketamine, with a knee or otherwise is something that has been done before. That's a government white paper discussing the subject. The article...

I dunno about you but that argument gets a lot weaker when that person's actions were within police policy and the "preexisting condition" in question was 4 times the lethal dose of fentanyl alongside other assorted drugs. Particularly when you're concerned that the individual in question is...

I've no expectations of the people currently trying to turn Floyd into a saint ever looking at this even assuming they would care. I'm mostly sharing it because it's pertinent to the thread and renders the case a lot shakier.

So I just found out something and I'm not sure it's been mentioned here but there's something very interesting about Floyd's coroner's report. Mainly the drugs in his system when he died. https://www.hennepin.us/-/media/hennepinus/residents/public-safety/documents/Autopsy_2020-3700_Floyd.pdf...