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Transcript of officer's body camera shows George Floyd told officers 'I can't breathe' before being restrained

By Allie JohnsonPublished 9 hours agoUpdated 7 hours agoFOX 9

MINNEAPOLIS (FOX 9) - The attorney of one of the four former Minneapolis police officers charged in the death of George Floyd in May is asking the court to dismiss the charges against him.

Thomas Lane, 37, is charged with aiding and abetting second-degree murder and aiding and abetting second-degree manslaughter in connection with Floyd’s May 25 death.

Lane’s attorney, Earl Gray, filed a motion Tuesday to dismiss the charges against Lane. He submitted eight documents supporting the motion to dismiss, including the transcript of Lane’s body camera video.

TRANSCRIPT

Lane and another officer, J. Alexander Kueng, who is also charged in Floyd’s death, were initially called to Cup Foods at 38th and Chicago on a report that someone had used a counterfeit $20 bill at the store.

The charges against Lane say he pulled his gun out when he approached the vehicle where Floyd was sitting and pointing it at Floyd’s open window.

According to the transcript from his body camera video, he asked to see Floyd's hands at least 10 times.

The transcript shows Floyd repeatedly asked the officers not to shoot him, saying he had been shot before.

“I’m sorry, I‘m so sorry. God dang man. Man, l got, I got shot the same way, Mr. Officer, before,” Floyd says.

Lane asks Floyd to step out of the vehicle. As he is doing so, Floyd says to him, “Okay, Mr. Officer, please don‘t shoot me. Please, man.”

Lane: I'm not going to shoot you. Step out and face away.

Floyd: I’ll look at you eye-to-eye man. Please don‘t shoot me, man.

Lane: I'm not shooting you, man.

Floyd: l just lost my mom, man.

Lane asks a witness, Shawanda Renee Hill, why Floyd is acting erratic.

Lane: Why's he getting all squirrelly and not showing us his hands, and just being all weird like that?

Hill: I have no clue, because he's been shot before.

Lane: Well get that, but still when officers say, "Get out of the car." ls he drunk, is he on something?

Hill: No, he got thing going on, I‘m telling you about the police.

Lane: What does that mean?

Hill: He have problems all the time when they come, especially when that man put that gun like that. It's been one.

As the officers are trying to get Floyd into their squad car, he repeatedly tells them he is claustrophobic and asks them to crack a window.

"Y‘all I'm going to die in here! I'm going to die, man!...and I just had COVID-19 man, I don’t want to go back to that,” Floyd says.

Lane tells Floyd he will roll the windows down and turn the air conditioning on.

Floyd tells the officers several times that he cannot breathe and says he wants to lay on the ground. Prior to getting Floyd to the ground, he says he cannot breathe multiple times.

At some point, Derek Chauvin and Tou Thao arrive on the scene.

The officers bring Floyd to the ground, where he continues to say he cannot breathe. He repeatedly cries out for his mother and says, “Tell my kids I love them. I’m dead."

“You’re doing a lot of talking man,” Chauvin tells him.

At one point, Lane asks, “Should we roll him on his side?”

Chauvin replies, “No, he’s staying put where we got him.”

Lane: Okay. just worry about the excited delirium or whatever.

Chauvin: Well that's why we got the ambulance coming.

Lane: Okay, I suppose.

Lane asks again a short time later, “Should we roll him on his side?”

EMS arrives to check on Floyd. Lane asks the paramedics, "you want one of us to ride with?" and he goes into the ambulance to help with CPR.

One of the paramedics asks Lane what was going on. Lane replies that they responded to a forgery report and that Floyd was “just not compliant with getting out of the car.”

“We were trying to get him in the back of the squad, and he was just basically resisting…He wasn't showing us his hands at first. Then we were trying to get him into the squad, he kicked his way out, he was kicking on there. And we came out the other side, and he was fighting us, and we were just basically restrained him until you guys got here,” Lane says.

Floyd was later pronounced dead at the hospital.

Lane, Kueng and Thao are also facing two charges each of aiding and abetting. Chauvin, the officer seen on bystander video kneeling on Floyd's neck as he struggled to breathe, is charged with second-degree murder, third-degree murder and second-degree manslaughter.

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https://www.fox9.com/news/transcript-of-officers-body-camera-shows-george-floyd-told-officers-i-cant-breathe-before-being-restrained.amp?__twitter_impression=true

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4579777&forum_id=2#40571902)

Floyd tells the officers several times that he cannot breathe and says he wants to lay on the ground. Prior to getting Floyd to the ground, he says he cannot breathe multiple times.

Floyd tells the officers several times that he cannot breathe and says he wants to lay on the ground. Prior to getting Floyd to the ground, he says he cannot breathe multiple times.

Floyd tells the officers several times that he cannot breathe and says he wants to lay on the ground. Prior to getting Floyd to the ground, he says he cannot breathe multiple times.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4579777&forum_id=2#40571908)

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(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4579777&forum_id=2#40571912)

'Ok, but 4 people need to sit on your neck while you do it.'

this part is still going to trip people up

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4579777&forum_id=2#40571919)

Also apparently in toxicology report - he had 3x dose of Fentanyl that's ever been survived...

If Chauvin gets anything that's considered too lenient, I can't imagine the level of rioting...

(also very much not a lawmo)

Edit: "ever been survived" not accurate - claims were based on study of a wave of Fentanyl ODs that came into a hospital based on coke users being sold fentanyl, so it's a decent sample to see the variation of survivability at different doses even after administering naloxone, i misspoke, but 4.6 was the highest dose survived in that sample

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4579777&forum_id=2#40571937)

1) how is the "causation" element met against the cop

2) is it really appropriate to have riots and destroy neighborhoods when a multiple drug abuser has a reaction and dies?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4579777&forum_id=2#40571955)

It’s not true. He had 11ng/ml. He took enough to pass out, but it wasn’t 3X the lethal dose. But enough where fatalities start popping up. I think the drugs plus stress did cause respiratory failure and a sober Floyd survives that encounter.

The recommended serum concentration for analgesia is 1–2 ng/ml and for anaesthesia it is 10–20 ng/ml. Blood concentrations of approximately 7 ng/ml or greater have been associated with fatalities where poly-substance use was involved.

https://www.emcdda.europa.eu/publications/drug-profiles/fentanyl

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4579777&forum_id=2#40572465)

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3576505/

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4579777&forum_id=2#40572473)

11 fentanyl

5.6 Norfentanyl

86 Morphine

"This fentanyl concentration, including its norfentanyl metabolite at its molecular weight, was 20.6 ng/mL "

Also: "(Fentanyl is used in hospitals as a painkiller at a blood concentration of 0.6 to 3.0 ng/mL or ppb). Patient E had a blood concentration of 11 ng/mL, while Patient I had 13 ng/mL. Patient K, who died a few days later, had 9.5 ng/mL. Patient F, who lived, had a concentration of 4.6 ng/mL, the highest among the survivors of this incident." - this is from a review of patients brought in after a batch of cocaine was sold that was really fentanyl with trace amounts of heroin - on one hand, all these patients were coke addicts, otoh, they all received naloxone

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4579777&forum_id=2#40573993)

if there's evidence that a drug overdose was the sole and absolute cause of his death that and argument to that effect should obviously be heard by the jury.

but implying that his imminent death was foreordained, bound and determined to drop him whether the police had ever been called or not, by a guaranteed-lethal existing quantity of drugs in his blood that had just not yet exerted their full effects and while he was out just casually going around paying bodega clerks w fake twenties feels like gilding the lily.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4579777&forum_id=2#40572402)

Here's the report referenced re: the survivable fentanyl dose:

https://www.acsh.org/news/2017/02/02/fentanyl-overdose-dont-count-naloxone-save-you-10822

I'm not sure this proves that, but I looked at a few studies of Fentanyl ODs and it seems that 4 ng/ML can be really lethal, obviously this depends on number of factors / tolerance / other drugs etc

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4579777&forum_id=2#40574032)

The three other policemen certainly have to be released.

As to Chauvin, he did what policemen normally do. The question is whether he could have been expected to know that the criminal was dying, and whether his actions actually caused that at all.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4579777&forum_id=2#40572396)

When I kill people I do so while I’m aware I’m being filmed

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4579777&forum_id=2#40574291)

PAUL CRAIG ROBERTS • JULY 7, 2020 •

I have searched the Internet and cannot find the alleged second autopsy—the so-called “independent autopsy” hired by “George Floyd’s family.” I have no difficulty finding the official medical examiner’s report, but there is no sign of a second autopsy. Those of you who are convinced it exists please send me the URL. It will prove that you are a better Internet searcher than I am.

Based on the available information, the “second autopsy” consists of an assertion by CNN, a collection of liars that other presstitutes echo. Thus, the presstitutes created a non-existent “second autopsy” just as they created Russiagate and Russian bounties to the Taliban to kill American troops in Afganistan that President Trump allegedly refuses to do anything about. Precisely how does Trump do something about something that does not exist? Try to imagine people so stupid that the morons think the Taliban has to be paid by Russia to kill the American troops who are trying to occupy Afghanistan. The Taliban have been killing the US occupying troops for two decades! Why suddenly are Russian bounties necessary for the Taliban to kill US troops? It is just more concocted anti-Trump propaganda.

Similarly, how can a second autopsy that allegedly concludes that officer Chauvin murdered Floyd be refuted when no such autopsy exists?

What does exist is a twice fired former medical examiner, first fired by New York City and then by Suffold County, who serves as a hired gun to give inflamatory statements to the media in support of civil lawsuits for money. His name is Michael Baden.

Baden did no second autopsy. He viewed the video of officer Chauvin and gave his opinion that Chauvin killed Floyd by cutting off oxygen and blood to the brain. In this rhetorical footwork, he was aided by the rightwing idiot Sean Hannity on Fox News.

Nowhere in the media is there any mention of Floyd’s existing serious health conditions, his drug addiction, or the level of fentanyl in his blood that was in excess of a fatal dose. The medical examiner’s report has been ignored by the presstitute media and by public authorities including the prosecutor who indicted officer Chauvin.

The consequence of a fentanyl overdose is inability to breathe and heart attack. Look it up yourself. I have provided the link in previous columns, and here it is again–https://www.drugabuse.gov/publications/drugfacts/fentanyl

Note especially:

“Can you overdose on fentanyl? Yes, a person can overdose on fentanyl. An overdose occurs when a drug produces serious adverse effects and life-threatening symptoms. When people overdose on fentanyl, their breathing can slow or stop. This can decrease the amount of oxygen that reaches the brain, a condition called hypoxia. Hypoxia can lead to a coma and permanent brain damage, and even death.”

“Synthetic opioids, including fentanyl, are now the most common drugs involved in drug overdose deaths in the United States. In 2017, 59.8 percent of opioid-related deaths involved fentanyl compared to 14.3 percent in 2010” —https://www.drugabuse.gov/publications/drugfacts/fentanyl

“Among an estimated 70,200 drug overdose deaths in 2017, the largest increase was related to fentanyl and its analogs with more than 28,400 overdose deaths. However, these numbers are likely underreported.” — https://www.drugs.com/illicit/fentanyl.html

Oxfordtreatment.com gives the fatal dose as 2 milligrams–https://www.oxfordtreatment.com/substance-abuse/fentanyl/lethal-dose/

Drugfreeworld.org gives the fatal dose as 3 milligrams– https://www.drugfreeworld.org/newsletter/issue13/the-truth-about-fentanyl.html

According to harmreductionohio.org, 700 micrograms (less than one milligram) is an overdose from which death is likely. One milligram (1000 micrograms) carries the risk of “death near certain.” Two milligrams and death is certain and unavoidable. A dose of 250 micrograms (one-fourth of one milligram) can kill a non-tolerant user. “Conventional medical wisdom is that 2,000 micrograms is the ‘minimum lethal dose’ — in other words, the smallest amount that can be fatal. This estimate is far too high. Two thousand micrograms (2 milligrams) of pure fentanyl injected into a vein would cause even most heavy heroin users to overdose — especially if fentanyl is mixed with any other substance, such as heroin, alcohol or Xanax.” https://www.harmreductionohio.org/how-much-fentanyl-will-kill-you-2/

These are extremely small amounts. “Rescuers responding to overdose calls have to be careful—just touching it or inhaling it can be deadly.” — https://www.drugfreeworld.org/newsletter/issue13/the-truth-about-fentanyl.html

Don’t write to me what you think. What you think is not the issue. The facts are the issue. If you don’t now the facts, you simply do not know. Ignorant and manipulated emotion is not a basis for arriving at truth.

There is no mention in the media of Floyd’s bloodwork showing the high level of fentanyl or by Hannity in his enabling interview of a hired gun, Michael Baden, who intends to make himself and Floyd’s “family” multimillionaires with a civil lawsuit. No doubt but that Baden is grateful to Hannity for giving him the public forum for his clients.

With no mention that Floyd had a fatal dose of a dangerous opioid that is known to stop breathing and cause a heart attack, the hired gun, Michael Baden, can pronounce officer Chavin guilty.

That is what the media want to hear. That is what the politicians are invested in. That is what Hannity in his stupidity has given to the leftwing as a weapon.

Here I am trying to defend the truth. There is no second autopsy, but everyone has been convinced that there is. What reach can one naysaying voice have when an irresponsible media has enthroned a lie?

Why was a “second autopsy” needed? According to CNN for no reason at all. According to CNN the official medical examiner’s report supports that Floyd’s death was homicide by police. If so, why did the “Floyd family” have to hire someone to say the same thing?

But this is just another CNN lie. There is no mention of homicide in the medical examiner’s report. There is no blame attributed to the police, The title of the medical examiner’s report has been intentionally misrepresented by the presstitute media to imply that the police at least had a small part in Floyd’s death.

Read the medical examiner’s report for yourself: https://www.scribd.com/document/464269559/George-Floyd-Autopsy-FULL-REPORT#from_embed

The report states: “No life-threatening injuries identified.” The title in the medical examiner’s report is nothing but a list of the factors investigated. The Amerian presstitute media has falsified the meaning of the use of the word “restraint” in the title of the medical examiner’s report to mean that police restraint contributed to Floyd’s death.

To summarize: Michael Baden did not do an autopsy. He provided his self-serving interpretation of the video everyone has seen. CNN turned this into a “second autopsy.” Other media picked up the CNN misrepresentation of a video interpretation as an autopsy, and the “fact” of a second autopsy was created. The medical examiner’s report does not mention homicide or use the word, and there is no mention of police restraint as a “confluence factor” contributing to Floyd’s breathing problem and death. Police or no police, the overdose of fentanyl was sufficient to kill him. Note that no media has mentioned the fatal concentration of fentanyl in Floyd’s blood. That Floyd was murdered by police is very important to many people, and this emotional response overwhelms facts. The media rushed us to judgment on an emotional response to a video without any examination of the facts.

Consider also that the “peaceful protests” were not spontaneous outbreaks in multiple cities. There were pre-delivered stacks of bricks present in protest locations. “Peaceful protesters” arrived with knapsacks filled with concrete chunks. Antifa was on hand to initiate the looting, burning, and violence. The presstitutes have tried to cover up these facts, but Black Agenda Report affirms that the “spontaneous protests” were planned in advance:

George Floyd Protests Were Result of Years of Organizing

There was nothing spontaneous about the breadth and scope of the protests that rocked the nation last month, said veteran activist Monifa Bandele, a member of the policy table of the Movement for Black Lives. “It really came off of six years of tough, exciting and inspiring mass organizing,” said Bandele. The unprecedented level of white participation was the result of “half a decade of telling non-white activists, ‘This is what it looks like, so follow the lead of Black organizations.’”

Americans are the world’s most gullible people. They have fallen for every transparent lie of the 21st century from 9/11 through alleged Russian bounties to the Taliban to kill US troops. Each time the truth eventually comes out. Controlled demolition brought down World Trade Center Building Seven. There were no weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. Saddam Hussein had no al Qaeda connections. There were no Iranian nukes. Assad did not use chemical weapons. Russia did not invade Ukraine. Yet the knowledge that they have been lied to and deceived does not shield Americans from falling for the next lie.

A people unable to catch on to their constant manipulation has no future.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4579777&forum_id=2#40574152)

recklessly endangering safety? maybe.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4579777&forum_id=2#40575059)