A DRUG OVERDOSE GONE BADLY WRONG?

Recently, additional police body camera video preceding the notorious final nine minutes of George Floyd's life has become available to the public.  The American Conservative's Rod Dreher has a long analysis of the video and the commentary.  By all means read the whole thing.  One of the analyses he links to is by sports broadcaster Jason Whitlock, who might himself be a nonconformist.  It might be wise, dear reader, to read his full post to see what I mean.  Here's the key observation.  "The behavior of the police officers seems appropriate and restrained given Floyd’s level of resistance and bizarre conduct."

As far as I know, the police officers who initially stopped Mr Floyd were of the view that he was in distress from an overdose, and they summoned an ambulance, although that ambulance was a long time in coming.  Whether that will be enough for the Minneapolis officers' defense team to raise reasonable doubt on trial is beyond my pay grade.  National Review's Robert Verbruggen doesn't think so.  "The bottom line, I think, is that it’s going to be hard to acquit someone who knelt on a subdued suspect until the suspect apparently lost his pulse, and then kept kneeling for a little while longer. But the key questions hinge on the eight minutes we already knew about, not the eight additional minutes the Daily Mail uncovered."