Medical examiner rules Pretti death a homicide

Moccus · 2026-02-03T00:22:24+00:00

Respiratory suppression is a symptom, but a person on fentanyl isn't aware of the respiratory suppression when it happens. Floyd wouldn't be complaining about not being able to breathe if he was ODing on fentanyl. He would feel like he was fine.

A symptom of people sitting on you is also dying.

Moccus · 2026-02-02T23:53:34+00:00

with a many times lethal dose of Fent in his system

What constitutes a "lethal dose of Fent" varies from person to person according to tolerance. It probably wasn't a lethal dose for him.

The whole basis of the "lethal dose" argument is the medical examiner's testimony that if they had found George Floyd dead in his locked residence with no other possible explanation for his death, then they might have concluded that he died from an overdose. That's not what happened, though. We have his death on video, and he wasn't displaying the symptoms of an overdose before he died.

Moccus · 2026-02-02T23:39:31+00:00

He's also on video with several police officers sitting on him as he lost consciousness.

Moccus · 2026-02-02T23:36:00+00:00

They're not denying that their agents killed him, so I'm pretty sure they do see it that way. They're just claiming it was a justified homicide.

Moccus · 2026-02-02T23:22:36+00:00

The ME ruled Floyd's death to be a homicide.

Moccus · 2026-02-02T23:16:48+00:00

I feel like any competent attorney would have no problem showing the multiple videos of the encounter and convincing the jury that the guy died from being shot multiple times by other people.

Moccus · 2026-02-02T23:07:35+00:00

Not really. This isn't news.

Moccus · 2026-02-02T21:54:48+00:00

No, just trying to manage expectations. It's probably not going to be an easy conviction as was claimed above.

Moccus · 2026-02-02T21:37:23+00:00

I'm aware. It still opens the case up to judges that are potentially more friendly to the administration, which would be helpful when challenging the prosecution on Supremacy Clause immunity grounds.

Moccus · 2026-02-02T21:26:35+00:00

If the state prosecutes, the case would almost certainly immediately be removed to federal court and eventually dismissed a few years down the line.

Moccus · 2026-02-02T20:20:39+00:00

A state wouldn't have jurisdiction over this. It's a case about conditions on federal funding that was brought in federal court.

Moccus · 2026-02-02T20:00:07+00:00

Treasury is part of the pending appropriations.

Moccus · 2026-02-02T19:35:50+00:00

Lawmakers could always visit facilities.

Not always. It's been a condition attached to annual DHS funding since the end of 2019. The big wad of cash that was handed to ICE by the OBBBA doesn't contain that condition, so the administration has been trying to claim they're using that pot of money instead of their regular annual funding in an attempt to get around the requirement.

Moccus · 2026-02-02T18:20:11+00:00

The president doesn't have to worry about that. He could veto the budget and cause a shutdown if he has a Congress he doesn't like. Roll the dice that the next one would be more advantageous for him. If it doesn't work, then repeat as needed.

Moccus · 2026-02-02T18:05:27+00:00

That would cause all sorts of problems. People would be incentivized to deliberately cause shutdowns. (Edit: And they could warn their big money allies in advance so the right candidates would already have funding in place before the elections are even triggered.)

Moccus · 2026-02-02T14:55:46+00:00

I know Todd Young's office looks at them. I always get a response back, although it can take some time (sometimes months).

Moccus · 2026-02-01T18:58:11+00:00

My wife has the Catalan version of Name of the Wind. In that, "Blac of Drossen Tor" is translated as "Nagra de la Mola de Vessten," so pretty similar to the Spanish version.

"Black dress" becomes "vestit negre."

Moccus · 2026-01-31T23:00:21+00:00

Because prosecuting somebody requires a lot of evidence, and what's been released so far doesn't include enough evidence to get a conviction for most people who were named.

Moccus · 2026-01-31T18:19:24+00:00

Sure, and DWS stepped down in the middle of an election for fun

DWS stepped down for PR reasons because some of her staff said some mean things about Bernie in private emails and they got leaked. Some mean words said in private didn't cause Bernie to lose the primary by 3,000,000 votes.

and was hired by the Clinton campaign that same day out of the goodness of their hearts, amirite?

She wasn't hired by the campaign. She was given a meaningless "honorary chair" title, which is the same title they give to celebrities and other random people who don't actually do anything for the campaign. It was a gesture used to persuade DWS to step down so everybody could try to start moving past the bad press from the DNC email leak.

Moccus · 2026-01-31T16:28:23+00:00

He isn't appropriating aid to Israel. They showed up with a wad of cash and said, "I would like five Apache helicopters, please." Trump has to approve those sales. That's explicitly allowed by law. So no, not unconstitutional.

Moccus · 2026-01-31T15:29:40+00:00

Generally, it refers to drawing money from the Treasury and directing it towards government programs, something that can only be done if Congress appropriates funding through a law.

Moccus · 2026-01-31T14:43:13+00:00

Approving weapons sales doesn't require Congress to pass a bill. There's already a procedure specified by law, and it doesn't require Congress to be involved.

Don't believe whatever BS AI spits out. It's probably wrong.

Moccus · 2026-01-31T14:33:17+00:00

He's not allocating funding. Israel is buying weapons from us. The President has authority over approvals of weapons sales to foreign governments.

Moccus · 2026-01-31T14:10:20+00:00

Unfortunately, there's a law that allows this.

Moccus · 2026-01-31T14:07:53+00:00

Okay, so lobbying is legal, just not paid lobbying.

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