Yes of course you would take that stance.
He claimed claustrophobia.
Even though he was pulled out of a smaller car, with the window rolled up, and they were trying to put him into a much larger SUV, and told him they would roll the windows down, he refused.
He fought, They ended up pulling him out the other side of the SUV and subdued him there with the knee on the neck.
That cop was not blocking his airway.
George didn't start saying he can't breathe til' after he was already in the SUV which he forewarned would happen, & was then pulled from the other side at 10:10 in the video. Around 11:05, they say they'll take him out. At 11:10, they tell George, "Come on out". He says thank you. Someone says to lay him on the ground (at 10:20, he
already asked to be laid on the ground beforehand). He does struggle and they subdue him, and a knee goes down on his neck around 11:20. He continues to say he can't breathe.
Notice throughout the video, someone makes suggestions to get his legs up around 12:50. He's told to leave him. At 15:50, someone suggests to roll him on his side; George is getting much quieter. After the 16 minute mark, George is barely making a peep & the knee has been on his neck for nearly 5 minutes. 16:50, an officer says, "Yeah, I think he's passing out". 19:40, same officer says, "He's not responsive right now". Paramedics arrive, knee comes off just before 20:50. 22:50, CPR begins as George is in the back of the ambulance.
That's where you seem to miss the issue still at hand here:
From the 16:00 mark to the 20:50 where George has made no movement or speech,
none of the officers make any attempt beyond the 1 filming, to see if George is actually okay after he has obviously stopped struggling or talking. No one says anything along the lines of, "George, you okay? You've stopped talking a lot" to reassure he's still there. Not even when that officer says, "
I think he's passing out" a minute after George began to go quiet, does anyone even release some weight off him or try to verify if he's conscious. The fact CPR is started almost immediately in the ambulance verifies something happened to George in that time frame & nobody caught it or made effort to catch it.
George might have been faking claustrophobia & Chauvin may not have intended for George to die, but his negligence with the other officers to keep George alive regardless is what's on hand now.
