The way he kept swinging his right arm around, digging around in the car, was making me nervous. The cop didn't have his gun drawn until he started doing that.
He was clearly nervous and scared. There's no training or rehearsal for civilians when dealing with police. He was accused of passing s fraudulent check, a very non violent crime. That he has not been convicted of.
As far as he knows, he got pulled over for no reason. And was likely reaching for his wallet and registration, as you do during a traffic stop. Then immediately he has a gun shoved in his face.
From there it looks to me like he had a full blown panic attack. Cops are less than worthless when dealing with mental health issues.
All of this aside, George Floyd did not deserve to die.
Just a quick note:
Floyd wasn't pulled over by police, he was sitting in the parked car. The police came after the store called about the fake $20, he was still at the scene sitting in the driver's seat acting erratic.
Initially I was of the opinion that they should have just written him a ticket and let him go but after seeing this I can see that they couldn't let someone in that state drive away (he was on fentanyl and meth according to the autopsy report, as a cop you can't let someone drive around on that stuff).
Lots of things were handled completely wrong however with this footage you can see how things escalated giving a more clear picture of the incident.
yeah, this whole encounter was all over the place and stressful just to watch even though I knew what was going to happen. I could never deal with that as my day job.
I think if he'd complied with the officer's first requests that this wouldn't have escalated.