Quote (Goomshill @ May 24 2022 01:13pm)
He gasped "I can't breathe" about a hundred times before he stopped talking, most of them before anyone restrained him. He was saying it while in the vehicle. Again, the theory you're arguing is one in spite of evidence, an unfalsifiable claim. If the argument goes that "there isn't always going to be evidence", well then how can you prosecute someone for murder? A proof beyond a reasonable doubt, in a crime on a theory that cannot be proven because it cannot be disproven. There could have been clear evidence of the amount of force used that would have been compelling. If there was bruising, trauma, physical injury of any kind. Then we could point to that and say, Chauvin & Co used enough force to cause these marks. Instead, we're left to this goldilocks scenario where they used exactly the right amount of force- held consistently for 9+ minutes- where any more and they'd leave marks, any less and it wouldn't cause harm. The absence of such evidence can't disprove that scenario, but it does weight against it and make it unlikely.
If Nancy Pelosi were found dead in the oval office in 2019 and a bloodstained knife had Donald Trump's fingerprints on it and his shoeprints were in the pooled blood, and lets throw in a used condom for good measure, well, we could construct a 'possible' scenario where an ingenious Puerto Rican-looking assassin framed Trump by obtaining his fingerprints from a diet coke, planting them on the knife, stealing his shoes to wear, sprinkling his DNA at the scene obtained from a hooker who works a corner behind a DC McDonalds and picking up his phone to tweet about it. And the assassin carefully removed every possible shred of evidence he was ever there. But there would be no evidence to support that theory, and all the evidence we have weighs against it and says the obvious conclusion about whodunnit.
We're back to my analogy about grandma and a pillow. If grandma is dying in hospice of cancer, and you smother her with a pillow to end her suffering, you have killed her. Not the cancer. You.
We know for a fact that he died, we know for a fact that he felt he couldn't breathe, and we know for a fact that the cops made it hard for him to breathe. There's nothing to consider regarding falsifiability.