When the EMTs arrived at the George Floyd death site, they found three police officers kneeling on a corpse. You may be asking how long the three officers had been kneeling on a dead body. The evidence shows that they had been there for a total of nine minutes, but for some of that time Floyd had remained alive. I’m going to guess that Floyd died six minutes into the documented event. After that the officers knelt on his remains.
In American law a corpse is not property, so if you kneel on one, you have not committed a property crime. Surviving relatives do have something called “pseudo property rights.” I don’t know what that means.
California state law requires anyone who sees a body to contact the authorities and remain 200 feet away from the remains to avoid disturbing evidence. But to whom should you report if three authorities are kneeling on the remains?
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