StenyFloyder

Based off a post on fragile white redditor subreddit, I agree with this fluid discussion in that thread and of the users engaged in said thread

Some people say that in the body cam footage of George Floyd in 2020, he was resisting arrest and that he seemed to them like he was high on something, while then saying that he didn't deserve to die under any circumstance

My counterpoint to that narrative is, even if we say that he was resisting before he was on the ground, that resisting was because he likely was having a panic attack and the police officers wrongly did not de-escalate the situation well as usual, possibly due to incompetence or as they say due to racially motivated behavior (when in reality that racially motivated behavior is anti blackness)

But we should never blame the victim.  He did not deserve to die, resisting arrest and being high should never be punishable by death. It is contradictory to list off all the things he supposedly did ‘wrong’ as if he did wrong, and then say he didn’t deserve to die.

So it definitely comes off that way because people have heard that narrative a lot of times as ‘justification’ for his murder. People who try to do that need to think more about the optics of their statements. They who make such statements are obviously not a bad people or fragile white people. But they should take some time to reflect on the ways they have been socialized to view a situation like that 

People who say that he was not resisting and bringing that up out of the blue basically does not serve a purpose except trying to justify the police’s actions. People must be careful with their views on this

Racism is often not about intention, a lot of times it's about the things we do not realize are racially motivated.  Some might say that people pointing out him resisting arrest and being high, even if such peoplr didn't intend it, comes off as very very racially motivated.

Besides, in regards to the "He was resisting" rhetoric,  why does that matter? How come is that a part of the narrative? Is it perhaps due to the fact that resisting arrest is a tool that is used by the police to promote their private prison pipeline and people have been socialized to tolerate it?

"He seemed like he was high on something" well, what reason can there be for that to matter at all? 

Why are people even discussing what chemicals were inside of his body? The man is dead; drug use doesn’t excuse cold blooded murder especially with the evidence that was presented to us. People tend to be socialized to vilify people, especially BIPOC, because of their drug use

He was panicked and the police officers, and instead of de escalating, they yelled at him

Oh, and there was no resisting, unless we consider calling someone having a panic attack ‘resisting arrest’

When someone has a panic attack, they can't control it.

But, that's what they are probably saying when they bring up resisting arrest

I wouldn't be that shocked that anyone wouldn't act completely compliant when the first thing that they had was a firearm up against their head followed by them being shoved into a car over a false report. 

Their first instinct would be to get out of that life-threatening situation, without complying

He was only resisting arrest getting into the vehicle. He sat down for the police and he was quite passive before doing that.

I believe that resisting and resisting arrest should be clarified here. That man was pretty much three times there size. He did not kick them or throw shoulders. He could have knocked two of those police officers down simply by throwing his weight around.

I like assume that when you find someone that manic as he was, they likely should call EMS and get them cuffed to a gurney. That makes it a lot easier to test for drugs also if they want to truly land the arrest.

It very much surprises me that people think that he was resisting arrest at all, which is even more surprising due to how as large he was. Even before the police had him on the ground, I really don't like that police can call that "resisting" when in reality he was mostly acting out of fear. 

They had options and they chose not to utilize those options so they really have (or at least one of them) have no defense at all morally.

Due process is a good thing and I am glad that justice was served

I do wonder if the body cam footage was released at the very beginning if this story would have played out any differently

So due to the above, I believe that we need to look into the very real possibility that George Floyd died via fentanyl overdose while he was tampering with evidence. Candace Owens was correct in her documentary about the whole George Floyd situation and I got that same feeling she did.  See here and here The Greatest Lie Ever Told: 'George Floyd' & The Rise Of 'Black Lives Matter'.