{"id":5097,"date":"2021-04-02T23:48:26","date_gmt":"2021-04-02T23:48:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=5097"},"modified":"2021-04-02T23:48:26","modified_gmt":"2021-04-02T23:48:26","slug":"derek-chauvin-murder-trial-kneeling-on-george-floyds-neck-totally-unnecessary-says-senior-policemansouth-china-morning-post","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=5097","title":{"rendered":"Derek Chauvin murder trial: kneeling on George Floyd\u2019s neck \u2018totally unnecessary\u2019, says senior policemanSouth China Morning Post"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: South China Morning PostKneeling on George Floyd\u2019s neck while he was handcuffed and lying on his stomach was top-tier, deadly force and \u201ctotally unnecessary\u201d, the head of the Minneapolis Police Department\u2019s homicide division testified Friday.\u201cIf your knee is on a person\u2019s neck, that can kill him,\u201d said Lieutenant Richard Zimmerman, adding that when a person is handcuffed behind their back, \u201cyour muscles are pulling back \u2026 and if you\u2019re laying on your chest, that\u2019s constricting your breathing even more\u201d.Zimmerman, who\u2026<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/world\/united-states-canada\/article\/3128194\/derek-chauvin-murder-trial-kneeling-george-floyds\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: South China Morning PostKneeling on George Floyd\u2019s neck while he was handcuffed and lying on his stomach was top-tier, deadly force and \u201ctotally unnecessary\u201d, the head of the Minneapolis&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":5098,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5097"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5097"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5097\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5098"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5097"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5097"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5097"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}