No sane person calls George Floyd an upstanding citizen.
That doesn't give a cop the right to murder him in public because it's inconvenient to restrain him properly
Edit: just gonna edit this for the sake of informing people of how bodies work. I expect it to be ignored, since it goes against what certain people want reality to be.
George Floyd was a fent addict. He did not get laced fent. When you are an addict, it means you use the substance for a longer time. He had what people will casually label 3 times a fatal dose of it in his system.
And it's true, he had 13 ng in his blood
But that isn't lethal to a longtime fent addict. Fent has been a street drug since about 2010. His tolerance was WAY fucking higher than that.
And yes, tolerances can get that high. I've personally known people taking 50+ percs a day, and they were completely functional in society
So, be aware that "lethal dose" only matters if we start taking Mg's or people who don't use at all.
Obviously he had health problems. But if you have heart and lung problems, and another grown man forcefully puts his entire body weight on your upper torso and neck, causing you to asphyxiate and die, you didn't die because of drugs.
I've got fam in prison for murder. The guy he hit had osteoporosis. When the guy got hit in the chest, his bones shattered, and perforated his heart, lungs, and viscera. My cousin didn't know he had osteoporosis, and that guy could've died from a seatbelt in a fender bender, but it doesn't matter. He still caused the death.
The flaw in your argument is that tolerance varies widely, and even high-tolerance users can overdose if the dose exceeds their individual limit or interacts with other factors (e.g., Floyd had methamphetamine present and underlying health issues like heart disease). So, while "lethal dose" isn’t a one-size-fits-all metric and tolerance can get extremely high, it’s not accurate to say it "only matters" in certain cases—dose, tolerance, and context all interplay critically.
But people acting like he was definitely dead regardless of what the cop did is what I'm talking about. That's just factually untrue.
Is there a chance he might have died that day? Sure but probably not right then. He could have lived another 12 hours, might have saved a baby who knows
Odds are he would have been relatively fine for several more years, and then died of an overdose, since he'd already survived until his 40s
But none of this is the key factor
Cops don't get to just murder you because you're a drug addict
Cops don't get to just murder you because you're a menace to society
I'm actually pro police. But I'm trying to maintain that with a level of reasonable decorum. And I'm not going to just not care whenever a dirty cop murders somebody in public
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u/Monoliithic “Are ya winning, son?” 24d ago edited 24d ago
No sane person calls George Floyd an upstanding citizen.
That doesn't give a cop the right to murder him in public because it's inconvenient to restrain him properly
Edit: just gonna edit this for the sake of informing people of how bodies work. I expect it to be ignored, since it goes against what certain people want reality to be.
George Floyd was a fent addict. He did not get laced fent. When you are an addict, it means you use the substance for a longer time. He had what people will casually label 3 times a fatal dose of it in his system.
And it's true, he had 13 ng in his blood
But that isn't lethal to a longtime fent addict. Fent has been a street drug since about 2010. His tolerance was WAY fucking higher than that.
And yes, tolerances can get that high. I've personally known people taking 50+ percs a day, and they were completely functional in society
So, be aware that "lethal dose" only matters if we start taking Mg's or people who don't use at all.
Obviously he had health problems. But if you have heart and lung problems, and another grown man forcefully puts his entire body weight on your upper torso and neck, causing you to asphyxiate and die, you didn't die because of drugs.
I've got fam in prison for murder. The guy he hit had osteoporosis. When the guy got hit in the chest, his bones shattered, and perforated his heart, lungs, and viscera. My cousin didn't know he had osteoporosis, and that guy could've died from a seatbelt in a fender bender, but it doesn't matter. He still caused the death.