Schaetzel suggested that Floyd died of high levels of catecholamines, a neurohormone associated with the flight-or-fight response, or Takotsubo myocarditis, a heart condition caused by intense emotional or physical experiences.

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Schaetzel suggested that Floyd died of high levels of catecholamines, a neurohormone associated with the flight-or-fight response, or Takotsubo myocarditis, a heart condition caused by intense emotional or physical experiences.

What exactly was the cause of the intense emotional and physical experience in this case? Because that sure as fuck still sounds like murder to me.

If you’re anaemic and I cut your arm and don’t let you do anything about it and you slowly bleed to death, I still was the murderer even if the anaemia killed you.

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No no. You don’t understand. It wasn’t the knee on his neck that killed him. It was his feelings about the knee on his neck.

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“Your honor, he died from lack of oxygen and not because I strangled him”

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He wasn’t breathing when I was strangling him, therefore, your honor, I am innocent

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AKA the Eggshell Skull rule. I also don’t see how it matters since the underlying cause was still the officers use of force.

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TIL. Unfortunately I feel like we live in a post-precedence world. As though somehow they’re going to say, “sure, any normal jury would go with the eggshell rule…but you’re no normal jury are you? You’re special. You can see right through that EsTaBlIsHeD pReCeDeNcE hogwash and make the REAL right call 😈.”

And somehow it will work.

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Schaetzel suggested that Floyd died of high levels of catecholamines, a neurohormone associated with the flight-or-fight response, or Takotsubo myocarditis, a heart condition caused by intense emotional or physical experiences.

Experiences such as… being pinned to the ground by a murderous thug and choked with his knee on your neck for nine minutes?

This mother fucker.

Unfortunately I can no longer find the uncensored version of this. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=clSpERAWR3o <-- If anyone else is familiar with this and knows of the uncensored hosted online somewhere, I’d love to know. This was very nearly the first video that made me realize something different was going to happen after this police killing.

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If you do find the original version please share it!

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Will do! All you are really missing are a log of F-bombs, but it detracts a bit from the emotion of the situation to have them all bleeped out, IMO.

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DOJ opposing, but who listens to them anymore? They had four years to handle the Trump situation, and in a month they’ll be taking their orders from him.

https://justthenews.com/government/courts-law/doj-urges-judge-reverse-decision-allowing-derek-chauvin-review-george-floyds

IMO this is all to remind Trump that Chauvin exists hoping for a pardon.

as part of the former Minneapolis police officer’s efforts to challenge his conviction on a federal civil rights charge

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He’s probably antsy after getting stabbed a bunch of times while serving his sentence.

Hopefully his latest maneuver fails miserably.

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He’s probably antsy after getting stabbed a bunch of times while serving his sentence.

Oh I didn’t know about this somehow. Poor guy.

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It took me a minute to notice the violin haha. Great meme

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Ah, the bullshit pseudo-scientific “excited delirium” defense.

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