How on earth can you expect people who have been suppressed to just forget about it and move on? One of the things I am learning is that I have enjoyed white privilege for all of my life and I need to try and put myself in the shoes of others to understand what they've been through and bring about change. The people who have the best chance of bringing about change are people like me, not asking black men and women to forget about the injustice they've suffered for centuries.

And I have looked up the stats. The US is 76% white and yet only 41% of those killed by police were white. 13% of the US is black and yet 22% of those killed are black. Do you think these 'challenge the narrative that's generally spouted' (odd phrase to use, by the way)? Seems to me it proves it very clearly.

Unless you think police are going around killing people at random on the street, those stats are completely redundant.

It may be that people DO understand it, but have a different view.

The whole country could takle a knee, and it wouldn't make a difference IMO.

But here's a little fact that the BLM movement seems to dodge: the biggest threat to young black males is other young black males. It seems that BL don't necessarily M to other BLs.

As i say I am no expert and I am sure the opposing medical practitioners will have their say in court. I just find the transcripts of the exchanges interesting. I am not nailing my colours to any particular mast in this. It is a tragic incident regardless of the root cause. A man lost his life and that is awful. The exchanges certainly paint an interesting angle on things. He was acting erratically/irrationally when the police arrived, the exchanges confirm that. He was claiming to be struggling to breathe when the police arrived, again the exchanges seem to confirm that also. Assuming the exchanges are being accurately reported then something weird was going on. As I say the court will decide on all of this, and as I said before, i do not think they acted in his best interests if he was struggling medically.

My analysis of Mr. Floyd’s toxicology report is that drugs could not have contributed to his death. Nor could they have made him “crazed.” In other words, drugs didn’t make him act so violently that lethal force was necessary nor did it cause some fatal medical condition.

Mr. Floyd had a negligible amount of drugs in his system — 19 nanograms per milliliter of methamphetamine and 2.9 nanograms per milliliter of THC, the major psychoactive ingredient in marijuana. Those numbers suggest he hadn’t used them in at least several hours, maybe a day.

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He also had 11 nanograms of fentanyl in his blood. That number, in and of itself, doesn’t tell us much. Immediately after a person dies, the blood concentration of fentanyl increases significantly, so knowing only the post-mortem amount does not tell us about Mr. Floyd’s level of intoxication before his death.

What’s more, the same amount of fentanyl that produces euphoria in a tolerant user can result in an overdose in a newer user. That’s why, along with the toxicology report, we have to look at Mr. Floyd’s behavior shortly before his death.

Videos show Mr. Floyd behaving rationally and appropriately, considering the circumstances. When officers asked him to get out of his car, he did not seem drowsy or lethargic, which is how people high on opioids behave.