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[jamesd at echeque.com]

At 5:26, Floyd tells the police officers that he is “claustrophobic” —
this, to say that he does not want to get into the police SUV. Remember
that the supposedly claustrophobic Floyd had been pulled out from behind
the wheel of his own car. This claustrophobic man is not so afraid of
confined spaces that he can’t stand being in a car. A reasonable person,
by this point, might conclude that the clearly agitated Floyd is just
talking trash to keep the cops from arresting him. He has been talking
almost non-stop since the police first approached him, trying to
convince the police to let him go.

At 5:38, Floyd denies for a second time that he is on drugs.

What’s striking too at this point is how polite and non-confrontational
the police have been. They ask him repeatedly to get into the SUV.

“I’m gonna go in!” says Floyd, at 6:18.

“No, you’re not!” one of the cops replies — meaning in context, you’re
saying you’re going to do this thing, but you are in fact refusing to do it.

They order him four or five more times to get into the SUV. He keeps
refusing. He claims that he is afraid, that he’s claustrophobic, that he
won’t be able to breathe. Voices of bystanders tell him to do what the
cops tell him to do, to quit trying to “win.” Floyd says he’s “not
trying to win.”

And then several more times, they order him to get in the car. One
officer goes around to the other side, to try to pull Floyd in. Floyd
offers to get into the front seat. No, an officer says. Floyd keeps
resisting. At 7:48, he’s still resisting and shrieking, and the
frustrated voice of an officer says, “Take a seat!”

Around 8:12, they finally put Floyd on the ground. He is continuing to
protest, “I can’t breathe!”

That’s the end of the above video. We know what happened next

Because Floyd was lying about not being on drugs, and lying about being
claustrophobic, cops did not believe he could not breath.  Probably he
was lying about being unable to breath, because he could still speak.

Because he was unreasonably persistent in resisting, they put pressure
on his neck for considerably longer than is safe to do so, and because
he had coronary disease, that hold was even less safe than it usually
is. (And it is not very safe if you continue longer than twenty seconds
or so, which is all that is normally necessary.)