George Floyd death: asphyxia finding creates potentially catastrophic collapse of trust
Trump: while all this is going on, he’s been sitting in a White House bunker, writing incendiary tweets that could burn down his country.
People in the United States cannot trust their police or the services who work for them, after a private post-mortem found that he was asphyxiated by Minneapolis police officers.
The county medical examiner had previously claimed that the death of George Floyd was caused by the combined effects of being restrained, underlying health conditions, including coronary artery disease and hypertensive heart disease, and potential intoxicants in his system.
Now we hear that this was not true.
It means the people of the United States cannot trust the officers they appoint to keep the law – either to enforce it properly or to tell the truth about it when others have failed in that duty.
In such circumstances, they cannot afford to trust in those who provide the services they fund. People of colour must feel particularly at risk.
This has happened in the term of exactly the wrong president.
Whereas Barack Obama (for example) might have agreed that there are serious problems with the authorities in Minneapolis, authorised an investigation and promised to get to the bottom of it, Americans have to face whatever decision Donald Trump makes instead.
He is likely to try to brazen it out – pretend that the county medical examiner’s finding was right and threaten action against anyone who says otherwise. In other words, he is likely to make a terrible situation disastrous.
If he’s not careful – and we know he isn’t – Trump could turn every US citizen against their neighbours. People across that country have already participated in violent confrontations over this.
There’s nothing to stop Trump from escalating that violence catastrophically. For example:
100% Correct. Thank you Tom! https://t.co/axdLX7kGNn
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) June 1, 2020
How is that helping?
And then there’s the fact that this is happening in the middle of the worst disease pandemic in a century.
If Trump is stupid enough to turn the American people against each other, then they’ll probably spread the virus like wildfire.
And – thanks to Trump’s daft-headed policies – the death count in the States is already higher than anywhere else in the world.
Source: George Floyd died of asphyxia, private post-mortem finds – BBC News
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