The videos have been available for public viewing at the county courthouse. One has to sign an agreement and not have any recording devices. Whoever supplied the videos to the Daily Mail used a video camera to record the computer screen.

And yes, the key really is what the EMTs discovered when they arrived. They did not behave like the patient was in cardiac arrest.

thanks, for the scary but fascinating answer. The criminal in Atlanta was also far more muscular than the cops he manhandled. this can only lead to trigger happy wimpy cops. not a good sign for the future.
I also have noticed given their generation how scrawny the antifa people are. granted they can do much damage as a mob with weapons, but scrawny nonetheless

Being a policeman is a hard job that doesn’t pay all that well and is not only dangerous, but, these days, is thankless as well. For law abiding citizens who have no training in self defense or weapons use, the police are their main line of defense. This is becoming apparent now that ANTIFA and BLM are targeting anyone who isn’t in their sphere of influence. The “silent majority” is in being silenced by violence.

The video of the Floyd arrest adds a bit of flavor to the transcript. Illuminates how difficult Floyd was and how obvious it was that he was high on something. It shows no racial animus and that Chauvin did not get involved until Floyd was placed on the ground and held down (per department procedures) for his and the officers’ safety until the EMTs arrived. The cell phone video tells none of that story and has been the lie that went round the world before the truth could get its boots on.

There is growing evidence that the George Floyd arrest was the trigger that the Marxist revolutionaries were waiting for. If it wasn’t that arrest, it would have been another such incident. Maybe the Rayshard Brooks shooting in June would have been the trigger. The anarchy unleashed so far is organized, well funded, and approved of by the Democrats.

Maybe some day it will be complete; but, even if so, the damage was done. BLM and other Nihilist gangs needed a spark. Ellison and other Minneapolis/Minnesota officials with their media accomplices provided the spark. Motivation? Not clear.

Regarding physical ability of cops. Traditionally the London Bobby who went about unarmed was the biggest, toughest guy on the block. Few wanted to take him on; and if they did he knew a thing or two about night sticks.

Related fall out from all of this. Riverside County, Ca Board of Supervisors unanimously voted yesterday to declare “Racism is a Health Crisis”. The usual cocktail of remedies is proposed.
I wrote an email to my Supervisor, telling her that I thought they had lost their grip on reality; and asked several questions that I thought pertinent. Waiting for a knock on the door. The really worrisome aspect is that the community bulletin board that carried the news was saturated with approving emoticons.

This unanswered question is finally raised here
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2020/08/04/point-2/#more-197471

SusanPhD observes:

…my instincts tell me this is a BIG DEAL COVER UP. per Hillary, “If revealed, they will all hang.” They’s why the elites want Trump out so badly. This is about money & theft on a GRAND GLOBAL SCALE.

Hillary has been known to be involved with insider trading back in the 1980’s with her cattle futures transactions. Since there was no accountability for that, what would have stopped her in 2012-2016?

McCain was involved in that Savings and Loan debacle back in the day. Charles Keating case. No accountability for him either.

If this isn’t investigated, we will never know.

Where to start? Standards have changed. There’s a counterproductive emphasis on BMI, with no room for judgment, resulting in men who are more slender being categorized healthier than a muscular guy who lifts iron. The lifter doesn’t even need to be real big, just enough that he’s too heavy for his height, even though most of that weight is muscle rather than fat.

So the strong, muscular guy gets rejected in the pre-physical. But the skinnier guy doesn’t.

Standards of fitness have been gradually lowered too. The millennial generation coming up has spent too much time playing video games and eating sugar. It really shows. An old co-worker of mine became a police academy instructor and he said that men in their 20’s are having a harder and harder time doing simple push-ups. Worse, they whine about it. A lot. The women are no better, just different: they didn’t play video games they just expect to be treated with kid gloves when they are even worse than the men with PT.

Many agencies are desperate and have gradually acquiesced to the demands of reality. Reality is thus: this generation is far, far softer than the preceding generations.

Time to put a restraint on AG Keith.

I support our civil right to due process. The evidence is, at best, redemptive, and, at worst, inconclusive.

Cops had the same muscle mass that Floyd did

That may well have been a factor that determined the tactic to manage his irregular behavior. A tactic that was sanctioned by the department. Does the AG sign off on rules and regulations of law enforcement?