Comments by "nexus1g" (@nexus1g) on "EXCLUSIVE - FULL VIDEO: Leaked police bodycam footage shows George Floyd's arrest for the first time" video.

I honestly don't see anything that calls for him being pinned down until he died. And if he were resisting, I guarantee you that they couldn't have controlled that big dude with mild soft hand techniques. Yeah, he was non-compliant and agitated. I think this could have been deescalated, especially once they had him in cuffs and the officers could be relatively secure in their own safety. There would have been a great benefit here had appropriate deescalation training been exercised. You don't get that training in the police force by defunding their departments. And, no, abolishing the police is not a solution either. At all. You increase their funding; require that funding to go into ongoing deescalation training; and hire more officers so you're not running on burnt-out, overworked officers. This was an avoidable death. Officers did, through their actions, kill a man that was cuffed and posed little clear threat to them and the public. In that, I still agree with the charges being filed against them.
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