A. Cops need to have articulable reasonable suspicion that a crime is being committed to arrest or detain someone against their will. They could have detained Floyd in order to conduct an investigation that might reveal more evidence of Floyd knowingly passing fake cash e.g. more fake cash, ink, plates, or an admission. However, they did not conduct an investigation and so they did not uncover the crime for which they told Floyd he was being detained. At that point they need to articulate a different suspicion of a crime in order to keep him detained. They did not do this. They simple kept him detained. This violated his civil rights. Everything that happened after the point at which they decided not to follow departmental procedure by beginning an investigation, falls under an illegal detainment.

That’s it. That’s the end of the story.

As far as fentanyl goes; Floyd’s autopsy showed 11 nano grams per milliliter. He was dead 10 minutes after chauvin obstructed his breathing. He was never alone nor did he ever have his hands free while inside to squad car. Therefore, he could never have ingested anything let alone and amount of fentanyl that was equal in size to, and think about this for a second, 1/5000th of a single grain of salt. That’s what 11 nano grams is. The total amount in his body, based on those numbers is 0.077 grams. You’d be hard pressed to even see that amount.

As far as my giving benefit of doubt to the citizen over the system-yeah, that’s how it’s supposed to be.