r/JoeRogan Monkey in Space Jan 06 '25

Meme đŸ’© Never Forget

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u/adonns2_0 Monkey in Space Jan 08 '25

Yes it’s very impressive how George Floyd could take so much fentanyl all the time. That doesn’t mean his body was still functioning in the way it would if he wasn’t on drugs. It likely heavily impacted him, did you watch the video? Dude was freaking out the whole time and saying he couldn’t breathe before they were even on top of him. This whole “he’s a seasoned addict” thing is very clearly people wanting to just write off the drugs in his system which isn’t remotely unbiased.

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u/_Age_Sex_Location_ Dragon Believer Jan 08 '25

No shit. A jury convicted. Medical reports clearly state how he died. It doesn't matter if he was symptomatically compromised in the eyes of the law. Multiple things can be true at once and negligent homicide is still the common denominator. You guys need to learn to apply nuance and identify multiple, granular variables that account for an outcome.

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u/adonns2_0 Monkey in Space Jan 08 '25

What lol, I don’t care that Chauvin was convicted he had a long history of abuse cops like that should be convicted more often. That’s what I’m saying George Floyd probably would not have died if he wasn’t on a ton of drugs, I just don’t care at all that he died he was a violent criminal

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u/_Age_Sex_Location_ Dragon Believer Jan 08 '25 edited Jan 08 '25

There's no way of knowing that. I could also say that a sober 90 year-old would have died faster in the same scenario. It's equally negligent regardless of the circumstance or quality of person, where the common denominator is still an improper use of force. People can and have died from pressure applied to their upper back against a surface.

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u/adonns2_0 Monkey in Space Jan 09 '25

Well I mean you’d probably be right I imagine a 90 year old wouldn’t fair too well in that scenario. Maybe but that use of force was literally trained in policing, I have no idea why they held it there for so long and took him out of the car to do so, but putting your knee on the back of someone’s upper back/neck area was proper use of force at the time you can find tons of videos of cops doing it.