Summary: George Floyd saga.

 VIDEOS TELL MOST OF THE STORY

SITUATION WAS CREATED BY GEORGE FLOYD

We have all seen the video with a police officer with his knee on George Floyd's neck, the trial and accompanying videos have now given us the rest of the story. There will soon be witnesses for the defense and autopsy results, but the videos from individuals and from speedway across the street all show the whole ordeal from start to finish. The videos accompanied by the transcripts of the radio transmissions give a clearer picture of this event.

It all started when George Floyd gave a counterfeit $20 bill to a clerk at a convenience store. It was quickly discovered and the manager of the store sent the clerk out to tell Floyd to come back and make good on this bill, Floyd refused.

The manager and the clerk then went out and talked to Floyd to come back in and take care of this situation, he again refused. 

Floyd was accompanied at the time by an unidentified male and an unidentified female, who Floyd's girlfriend described as Floyd's source of drugs.

The manager then called the police, all the while Floyd is sitting in his car across the street.

When the police arrive, the 2 other individuals leave the scene. Floyd refuses to get out of his car. He is clearly out of control and in a state of mental distress. Eventually the police pull him from his car and handcuff him and sit him on the sidewalk, talking to him and attempting to calm him down. Floyd could have driven away at anytime before the police arrived, but he may have been incapable of driving.

Eventually the police decide to put him in the rear of a police vehicle. The try to put him on the drivers rear side, but Floyd refuses to get in and physically they work for some time to get him in. He is crying and saying he is claustrophobic and he cant breathe. They finally get the door closed and Floyd begins to exit the passenger side. The police attempt to get him back in. By this time it seems all concerned are physically exhausted. They then get Floyd out and hold him on the ground. Telling him to stop struggling, which he does not do. 

The police then call an ambulance, with a code that indicates he is mentally distressed. In a couple more minutes they call the ambulance that there is a more serious health situation. By the time the ambulance arrives Floyd is now not responding. He is already dead or dies shortly thereafter.

Floyd's girlfriend relates about both of their opiod drug use and that Floyd had OD'd a couple months earlier, had serious heart problems and barely survived.

Floyd could have ended all this by first exchanging the $20. bill. He then could have cooperated with the police and if he did not have any other counterfeit bills in his vehicle or residence, would have likely been let go. George Floyd made all the wrong decisions in this event and would be alive today if he would have made the right decisions.

The police could not control this man, they never hit him or tasered him, they had little choice, but to take him in or let him go. While everyone wants to blame his death on police action, the police can not just let people go after they are called to respond to any crime. 

The police should not be expected to wrestle with every suspect they attempt to detain, give them tools to incapacitate suspects who resist without physical contact. Once the wrestling begins, no one is making rational choices.

This is very much a similar situation as the Eric Gardner case a few years ago in New York.

Maybe it time for the police and their unions to demand from politicians clear guidelines of what to do when someone refuses to cooperate, resists arrest, and they are unable to control someone. It is always easy to say what should not have been done, but no one wants to say what should be done.