hawkeye
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Been watching the trial off and on. At first, the prosecution blitzed jurors with testimony piling on Chauvin, but the last couple days, I think the defense has countered well. I'm beginning to think the defense has a "puncher's chance" at getting an acquittal. The question will be is how the jurors take the totality of evidence presented or have they already been overwhelmed with the prosecution's laundry list of testimony.
Some interesting takes I got from watching were the fact other angles indicate Chauvin's knee was not on Floyd's neck but on his shoulder blade. Both the chief of police and the FBI use of force expert witness were redirected and confirmed the appearance of Chauvin's knee on Floyd's shoulder blade rather than neck. Also, the ER physician that originally claimed hypoxia or aphyxia from the use of force was redirected that both methamphetamines and fentanyl lead to respiratory distress, and the defense reminded jurors that Floyd's blood toxicology indicated 3x the lethal dose of fentanyl.
Throw in that flood had 3/4 of his main arteries blocked, he was a walking time bomb. The whole "I can't breath" angle was shown that Floyd was saying this prior to being pulled from the squad car. Audio from one of the body cameras also can be heard, "I ate a bunch of drugs."
Just interesting I guess. I think Chauvin will be the scapegoat, and he will also get tagged for failing to render aid including life saving measures, but it's interesting how much the media will report on the aforementioned. Just wondered what you guys thought about the trial.
Some interesting takes I got from watching were the fact other angles indicate Chauvin's knee was not on Floyd's neck but on his shoulder blade. Both the chief of police and the FBI use of force expert witness were redirected and confirmed the appearance of Chauvin's knee on Floyd's shoulder blade rather than neck. Also, the ER physician that originally claimed hypoxia or aphyxia from the use of force was redirected that both methamphetamines and fentanyl lead to respiratory distress, and the defense reminded jurors that Floyd's blood toxicology indicated 3x the lethal dose of fentanyl.
Throw in that flood had 3/4 of his main arteries blocked, he was a walking time bomb. The whole "I can't breath" angle was shown that Floyd was saying this prior to being pulled from the squad car. Audio from one of the body cameras also can be heard, "I ate a bunch of drugs."
Just interesting I guess. I think Chauvin will be the scapegoat, and he will also get tagged for failing to render aid including life saving measures, but it's interesting how much the media will report on the aforementioned. Just wondered what you guys thought about the trial.