This was always debate that really puzzles me, for a couple reasons. First, as a science guy it never even occurred to me to call the virus the “China virus”. Like, that’s not even a thing in any circle I have. It’s just SARS-CoV2. Or Covid by shorthand, or whatever. Like we just call it the actual virus. But then I guess we’re boring.
Second, on the very long list of things to get offended about it these days it just seems that “China virus” is so tame that’s it’s not worth it. Obviously violence against Chinese or Asian people on account of virus is not acceptable. But just as words… Meh. “Yellow flu” or some of the others I’ve heard online ok, I get why those are sparking tensions.
Cold. But in the US we can’t even qualify for shit in soccer. I refuse to call it football. That’s played with helmets. Call me xenophobic but I’ll be damned if I change that ever.
But the networks ARE referring to it as the UK/Brazil/South African variants. Even NPR. Whether they should be or not, they are. Where are the cries of racism?
After having his life ruined for political purposes. There was no decent, legal case against him. The prosecution is questioning witnesses(at least, in the bit I’ve watched) as though they are doing an internal affairs investigation…which is where the case should’ve ended. As I’ve had little time to watch the trial, I’ll take your word that the case against Chauvin is falling apart.
Two standout moments of ‘oh fuck’ for the prosecution was the body cam footage that appeared to have Floyd say ‘I swallowed too many drugs’ and the prosecution expert witness saying some things may be awful but still legal.
The case is FUBAR, the defence witnesses haven’t even been called yet.
If, as some witnesses have said, that they can’t definitively say that the knee was on the neck, and that Floyd ingested ‘too many drugs’ by his own admission, this case is deader than parachute pants.
I believe I’d be willing to let someone kneel on my neck off-and-on for 10 minutes to find out whether that’s lethal. Edit: His weight doesn’t seem to be on that knee, Floyd was saying, “I can’t breathe” way before Chauvin touched him, and the “blood choke”(that so many first heard of after seeing the video) doesn’t seem to match what happened…
Not an experiment I would engage in, but it would certainly be useful to establish here.
Like I said, this isn’t going well for the prosecution. One video isn’t determinative, and when there are multiple body cams, expect to see every angle probed by the defence.
I hate to say I told people so, but I did say this was going to be a tough row to hoe from a prosecution standpoint.
It has been explained to you but you went all in on trying to be clever and edgy and now you are just doubling down instead of admitting you didn’t think it through.
Pride? There is no white culture. Unless you’re anti-racist. Then there is a very real and oppressive systemic white culture so obvious and ever present that it requires a lucrative amount of money, specialists, within corporate and academic institutions to re-educate folks out of, or to at least recognize in one’s self. Wait…wwwwhhhhaaaat?
Surely though there is some criminality for a first responder to not provide the most basic first aid to a man who no longer has a pulse…He is now their responsibility to some degree as arresting officers?
Even if there it was really the drugs. If. Is there not some requirement to provide aid to a person your CUSTODY?
They may have, indeed, violated a duty of care that they hold by merit of their position. Whether that will keep a murder charge afloat is a different question.
As a general rule, there is no duty to help in most common law countries.
I think so, but I’m not expert on law. But that’s a far cry from a murder charge unless you’re watching TV dramas. There is going to be absolutely terrible backlash and rioting if the case goes the way it seems to be. That’s worrisome.
