Minneapolis is Burning

[EE2B 1569]

Let's say George Floyd had 5700mL of blood in his body, which is the high average amount of blood in humans. 11 nanograms is .011 micrograms. 0.11mcg x 5700mL is 62.7mcg of fentanyl in his entire body. I give 100mcg of fentanyl at a time to patients regularly, including many who do not have an opioid tolerance already built up.

George Floyd probably had more than 5700mL of blood in his body, but he also had plenty of body mass. 100mcg of fentanyl would not kill him, especially if he used fentanyl with any regularity.  
ETA: someone doublecheck my math and make sure I'm not being stupid

I thought I read that he had 11.0 ng/ml of fentanyl, 5.6 ng/ml of norfentanyl and 19 ng/ml of meth. I could be misremembering.

[Satchel 6982]

2 hours ago, Horn Under a Bad Sign said:

The one whose job it is to determine for the people of Minnesota how/why a person died. Or was that a rhetorical question?

But for Chauvin’s knee on his neck for nearly nine minutes...

[Guest Lobo]

Based on the questioning of the two witnesses today, if I'm the defense...I may as well try, "Did it ever occur to any of you anti-police bastards that Chauvin put his knee on Floyd's neck to keep the fentanyl from going into his brain?!?!?" 

[Aqua Buddha 14807]

Chauvin is only 5'9" and 140 lbs?

[TexArcher 39074]

5 minutes ago, Aqua Buddha said:

Chauvin is only 5'9" and 140 lbs?

But give him a badge, gun, pepper spray, a baton, and the authority to hurt people and he feels 6' 5" and 240.

I bet his ballsack looks like two raisins.

[Guest Lobo]

1 hour ago, Aqua Buddha said:

Chauvin is only 5'9" and 140 lbs?

Yeah, I saw that and thought...he can't be 5'9"...his most famous photo is him on his knees and the top of his head is halfway up the rear window of a Ford Explorer.  I'm 6'1" and the top of my head barely reaches that height frame of reference.  "Oh, right, right...he gets a 5" boost from the neck of the dead man underneath him."  

140 pounds, eh?  Wow, I don't know how you say "hors d' oeuvres" in prison lingo...but...

[WhatTheBuck 28931]

14 hours ago, Aqua Buddha said:

Chauvin is only 5'9" and 140 lbs?

Some cops were bullies as kids, others were bullied. I’m betting Chauvin falls in the latter group. 

[Longhorn_Fan68 34106]

man, from what I am reading about this defense I don't see how this doesn't get a retrial due to incompetence. It's gonna be some bullshit like that, isn't it?

[Michael Knight 13231]

Tom Hanks

 

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My experience was common: History was mostly written by white people about white people like me, while the history of Black people — including the horrors of Tulsa — was too often left out. Until relatively recently, the entertainment industry, which helps shape what is history and what is forgotten, did the same. That includes projects of mine. I knew about the attack on Fort Sumter, Custer’s last stand and Pearl Harbor but did not know of the Tulsa massacre until last year, thanks to an article in The New York Times.

Instead, in my history classes, I learned that Britain’s Stamp Act helped lead to the Boston Tea Party, that “we” were a free people because the Declaration of Independence said “all men are created equal.” That the Whiskey Rebellion started over a tax on whiskey. That the Articles of Confederation and the Alien and Sedition Acts were cockeyed. Rightfully, Sacco and Vanzetti, Teddy Roosevelt’s Bull Moose Party and the Wright Brothers had their time in my classes. Our textbooks told of the Louisiana Purchase; the Johnstown, Pa., flood; the great San Francisco earthquake; and George Washington Carver’s development of hundreds of products from the common goober.

But Tulsa was never more than a city on the prairie. The Oklahoma Land Rush got some paragraphs in one of those school years, but the 1921 burning out of the Black population that lived there was never mentioned. Nor, I have learned since, was anti-Black violence on large and small scales, especially between the end of Reconstruction and the victories of the civil rights movement; there was nothing on the Slocum massacre of Black residents in Texas by an all-white mob in 1910 or the Red Summer of white supremacist terrorism in 1919. Many students like me were told that the lynching of Black Americans was tragic but not that these public murders were commonplace and often lauded by local papers and law enforcement.

This'll get the right wing snowflakes riled up

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Today, I think historically based fiction entertainment must portray the burden of racism in our nation for the sake of the art form’s claims to verisimilitude and authenticity. Until recently, the Tulsa Race Massacre was not seen in movies and TV shows. Thanks to several projects currently streaming, like “Watchmen” and “Lovecraft Country,” this is no longer the case. Like other historical documents that map our cultural DNA, they will reflect who we really are and help determine what is our full history, what we must remember.

 

 

 

Edited June 4, 2021 by Michael Knight

[Willfully Horn 8265]

Watching the sentencing hearing for Floyd’s murderer. Chauvin’s mom wants folks to know that whatever sentence Chauvin faces, she will suffer, too. (Not a word of sympathy from her towards Floyd’s family, btw).

Ar any rate, the judge sentenced Floyd’s murderer to 270 months, ten years more than the presumptive (average?) sentence.

[Buzzrock 15136]

I wonder what he meant by new information coming out soon. That was weird.

[Willfully Horn 8265]

Suicide was my first thought.

[Don Johnson 4847]

 

[4th&Five 42008]

Should be more but better than nothing. 

[Brisketexan 106907]

6 minutes ago, Buzzrock said:

I wonder what he meant by new information coming out soon. That was weird.

Jesus.  There's no way to reply to that without going full Cloak Room.  It's going to be some version of some Qanon conspiracy theory rigged voting machine bullshit, or the functional equivalent.

Chauvin and his defenders have zero fucking decency or humanity.  And certainly a complete inability to accept any -- not a single iota of it -- responsibility.  Fucking scum.

[Satchel 6982]

4 minutes ago, Brisketexan said:

Jesus.  There's no way to reply to that without going full Cloak Room.  It's going to be some version of some Qanon conspiracy theory rigged voting machine bullshit, or the functional equivalent.

Chauvin and his defenders have zero fucking decency or humanity.  And certainly a complete inability to accept any -- not a single iota of it -- responsibility.  Fucking scum.

He has two federal indictments pending against him. One is for hitting a 13 year old kid in the head with a flashlight. That’s why he said as little as possible, imo.

[Brisketexan 106907]

2 minutes ago, Satchel said:

He has two federal indictments pending against him. One is for hitting a 13 year old kid in the head with a flashlight. That’s why he said as little as possible, imo.

"My greatest sympathy is with the family of George Floyd.  I wish all of you peace and comfort."

That would have been "as little as possible" and also wouldn't have flagged him as an even bigger piece of shit than he's already proven to be.

[TexArcher 39074]

20 minutes ago, Buzzrock said:

I wonder what he meant by new information coming out soon. That was weird.

Could it be something related to his inevitable appeal?

[WhatTheBuck 28931]

16 minutes ago, 4th&Five said:

Should be more but better than nothing. 

I wasn’t expecting the full 30. I was hoping for at least 20 so I guess I’m satisfied. 

[Brisketexan 106907]

2 minutes ago, TexArcher said:

Could it be something related to his inevitable appeal?

Probably something to do with hacked Italian satellites and pedophile pizza parlors, or something equally moronic.

[TexArcher 39074]

Just now, Brisketexan said:

Probably something to do with hacked Italian satellites and pedophile pizza parlors, or something equally moronic.

They're gonna say that the information to acquit him is buried in Hilary's emails, aren't they?

[Brisketexan 106907]

Just now, TexArcher said:

They're gonna say that the information to acquit him is buried in Hilary's emails, aren't they?

Perfect.

Maybe it's in Hunter Biden's laptop.

Whatever the story is, it's going to be dumb as shit.

 

['stache 22144]

Did the judge give him a hug like that bitch that killed Botham Jean?

[UpperWestside 6280]

39 minutes ago, Brisketexan said:

Perfect.

Maybe it's in Hunter Biden's laptop.

Whatever the story is, it's going to be dumb as shit.

 

Why not tie it into Giuliani losing his NY law license as well? So many conspiracies and grievances all rolled into one giant white conspirpocalypse!

[NameAlreadyInUse 5169]

On 8/27/2020 at 4:13 PM, GRHorn said:

 I’m not dumb.

Could've fooled me, man.

[Hugo Stiglitz 23367]

 

[Guest Lobo]

2 minutes ago, NameAlreadyInUse said:

Could've fooled me, man.

He can handle things, he's smart!  Not like everybody posts.  Like dumb, he's smart and he wants respect!  

[wildcat09 29582]

I'm worried about JohnnySack, he's not going to take this news well.

[Bullneck 19533]

Derek Chauvin's Family Has Received No Updates After Prison Stabbing, Attorney Says

An attorney for the former Minneapolis police officer convicted of murdering George Floyd says his family has been kept in the dark by federal prison officials.

MICHAEL R. SISAK AND TRISHA AHMED

 

[Bozo_Casanova 26851]

Families of murderers in prison often struggle to get information about their loved ones. It's very difficult. 

Edited November 26, 2023 by Bozo_Casanova

[Fudge Nuggets 19455]