I don’t agree with people, like Mr. J. Gary DiLaura, who think that the police are possibly innocent of criminality in George Floyd’s death. To me, it seems like straight out murder of Floyd by officer Derek Chauvin and aided and abetted by three colleagues.
But DiLaura is a law enforcement officer, with the FBI for decades, with an impeccable record and much more experience than me. He deserves to be heard and for the maniacal people who cannot tolerate any free speech that does not conform with what they want to hear, they are free to comment. I will tolerate your speech without rage.
For my part, I do not think ex-officer Chauvin will ever see freedom again. He murdered a man. Whether that man was a good man or a bad man or somewhere in between is irrelevant. But DiLaura points out that the police may have been dealing with a drugged up and aggressive man. That may be true, but it still seems to me that there may have been a better way to prevent an aggressive, drugged up man, other than kneeling on him until he suffocated.
That said, please give Gary an opportunity to express himself, He is a lifetime lawman; obviously his sympathies are with his fellow lawman. But also, perhaps less obviously, he has been in challenging situations himself and had to solve problems at the time of the challenge and not after the fact.
By J. Gary DiLaura, FBI, retired
The “report and videos ” by the NY Times are very telling yet, in my humble opinion, really add mud to the already muddy water on “cause of death”.
Assuming Floyd was, let’s say, not in the best of health, probably due to substance abuse, his “fainting” for an instance BEFORE any “choke” hold was applied, in my opinion, was probably due to an event he had related to blood flow to his brain.
We know he is a substance abuser, we know that the reports to the arriving police was he that was very “drunk”.
Drunk? From what… booze or drugs or both?
George Floyd was an African American who was killed on May 25, 2020, when a white Minneapolis police officer kneeled on his neck during an arrest for passing counterfeit $20 bill.
The point is, that is extremely important and goes to what caused his death. We won’t know until all the facts are in.
What did his passenger have to say about what he knew Floyd did to become intoxicated?
Where were they?
What drugs, if any, or what booze, if any, did they consume?
Did Floyd pass out BEFORE going to the store?
The other thing I believe, although it’s not certain, is the officer with the knee does not appear to be on his carotid.
Looks to me like he is partly on the jaw bone and backed off to the back of the neck when Floyd said he can’t breathe.
I think closer examination of everything is needed. What part did the two other officers on his back play in “I can’t breathe”?… think about that for a while.
Here’s the only point I want to make… being a cop is much more difficult and dangerous than being say a “Community Organizer”…
DiLaura says “the murder charges will be dropped. If they find fentanyl in his blood …all criminal charges will be dropped. If you can blow up the picture of the knee, it may be that it was never on the neck, just his jaw and back of the head…that we [at the FBI] did teach. Knee on the head, ear…but not throat. There is no proof he was killed by those cops…yet!”
We risk life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness… to enforce the laws, to keep you safe and are entitled to be considered “innocent until proven guilty”! Enough said on that issue.
On the “Non-Peaceful Protesting” that we are all seeing… it is NOT a Peaceful Protest by any stretch of the fake news imagination.
It is, as I said from the beginning, well organized illegal acts called rioting! It’s well organized, criminal, seeded, funded, pursued by Hussein Obama, his organizations and a wealthy, dual citizenship, socialist who happens to be a billionaire.
Follow the Goddamn Money…then lock up the organizers. It is their last-ditch chance to win a Presidential Election…without any viable candidates for either President or VP!
Arrest these so-called Democrat leaders and charge them with criminal negligence… conspiring to aid rioting… and let a jury decide if Democrat leaders, like Cuomo, de Blasio, the Minneapolis Mayor, the DC Mayor are criminals, inept or just born stupid!
If Cuomo could ban any “public interaction” because of COVID-19…WTF…what about no “protesting”, public interaction due to arson, assaults, murders by rioters, until we find a “cure” for that! Isolate at home!
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George Floyd was born on October 14, 1973, in Fayetteville, North Carolina. He was raised in Cuney Homes of the Third Ward of Houston, Texas. Floyd played on the Football and Basketball teams at Yates High School. He attended South Florida Community College for two years. George Floyd moved to Minneapolis from his native Huston several years ago with hopes of finding a job and starting a new life said Christopher Harris, Floyd’s lifelong friend, but he lost his job as a bouncer at a restaurant when Minnesota’s governor issued a stay at home order. George Floyd was unemployed due to the coronavirus pandemic. Before he died after being pinned for minutes beneath the Minneapolis Police officer knee, George Floyd was suffering the same problem (out of work and looking for a new job) as millions of Americans during the coronavirus. He was 6’6″ inches tall.
Shadow State Provides us with the following:
AUTOPSY RESULTS
George Floyd had the following medical conditions:
CARDIO-PULMONARY DISEASE
HIGH BLOOD PRESSURE
FENTANYL ABUSE
METHAMPHETAMINE ABUSE
MORPHINE ABUSE — MORPHINE WAS FOUND IN THE MEDICAL EXAM
YEARS OF COCAINE ABUSE
CANNABANOIDS
COVID-19
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Caffeine Positive mcg/mL 0.20 001 – Hospital Blood LC/TOF-MS
Cotinine Positive ng/mL 200 001 – Hospital Blood LC/TOF-MS
4-ANPP 0.65 ng/mL 0.10 003 – Hospital Blood LC-MS/MS
11-Hydroxy Delta-9 THC 1.2 ng/mL 1.0 001 – Hospital Blood LC-MS/MS
Delta-9 Carboxy THC 42 ng/mL 5.0 001 – Hospital Blood LC-MS/MS
Delta-9 THC 2.9 ng/mL 0.50 001 – Hospital Blood LC-MS/MS
Methamphetamine 19 ng/mL 5.0 001 – Hospital Blood LC-MS/MS
Fentanyl 11 ng/mL 0.10 001 – Hospital Blood LC-MS/MS
Norfentanyl 5.6 ng/mL 0.20 001 – Hospital Blood LC-MS/MS
Cannabinoids Presump Pos ng/mL 50 012 – Urine EIA
This test is an unconfirmed screen. Confirmation by a more definitive technique such as GC/MS is recommended.
Amphetamines Presump Pos ng/mL 500 012 – Urine EIA
This test is an unconfirmed screen. Confirmation by a more definitive technique such as GC/MS is recommended.
Fentanyl / Metabolite Presump Pos ng/mL 2.0 012 – Urine EIA
This test is an unconfirmed screen. Confirmation by a more definitive technique such as GC/MS is recommended.
Morphine – Free 86 ng/mL 25 012 – Urine
Fentanyl / Metabolite – Urine:
Fentanyl is a DEA Schedule II synthetic morphine substitute anesthetic/analgesic. It is reported to be 80 to 200times as potent as morphine and has a rapid onset of action as well as addictive properties
Reference Comments:
11-Hydroxy Delta-9 THC (Active Metabolite) – Hospital Blood:
11-Hydroxy Delta-9 THC is an active intermediate metabolite of tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) the active
component of marijuana. Usual peak levels: Less than 10% of THC levels after smoking.
1.
4-ANPP (Despropionyl fentanyl) – Hospital Blood:
4-ANPP (despropionylfentanyl) is a precursor chemical used in the production of fentanyl and is also a fentanyl
metabolite. It may be used in the production of other related compounds such as acetyl fentanyl, butyryl
fentanyl and furanyl fentanyl and may be a metabolite of these and other fentanyl-related compounds. It is
considered to be pharmacologically weak.
2.
Amphetamines – Urine:
Amphetamines are a class of central nervous system stimulant drugs, with some therapeutic uses, and a high
potential for abuse.
This result derives from a presumptive test, which may be subject to cross-reactivity with non-amphetamine
related compounds. A second test is necessary to confirm the presence of amphetamine related compounds.
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