The delicious irony of the St. Garner incident is this:
The Nanny State’s liberal tax policies created a ridiculous law, which, combined with the criminal and obesity nature of St. Garner, caused his ultimate demise.
Blaming cops for his death is like blaming good tires for a high-speed crash.
Uh, what? It would be like blaming the crash on tires that CHOSE to stop gripping the road.
Or better: It would like the guards at Dachau saying, "We were ordered to do it!" There was no one there ordering those cops to wrestle him to the ground and stand around and watch him die.
Doesn't anyone have free will any more? The cops wanted to make a point. They are trained to use maximum force in every situation lest it "get out of control". And, they did. The made a point.
There’s no such thing as murder, people are going to grow old and die anyway right?
A ridiculous and absurd example, but it does hit the point hard.
That cop should have been indicted in a New York minute. Hek, if they’re alowed to skip indictment I would have gone straight for charges of manslaughter.
I believe there is ample common law regarding contributing factors for death, but the Law rarely tries to predict the future. Maybe a FRlawyer will correct me.
...”Blaming cops for his death is like blaming good tires for a high-speed crash”....
Amazing people can’t see the obvious.
So it wasn’t the methods they used to arrest him that killed him, it was the reason for the arrest that killed him?
So if they were arresting him for some other reason he wouldn’t have died?