“You forgot the “/sarc” tag.”
No sarcasm. All laws are enforced at the threat of physical violence. Even tax laws.
In this case NYC doesn’t want a small time loosie hustler cutting into their revenue. I’d jail this officer.
In the country I grew up in - America - police were respected public safety officers, who were respectful and well disciplined to use minimum force. Today, in the United States, they are arrogant, quick to use force, and disrespectful to citizens.
I certainly know this, but the cause of death for Eric Garner is/was not a penalty for illicit sale of smokes. The cause of death was not the fact that the officer applied a blood-circulation (not air restriction) hold. The cause of death was the defiant resistance to arrest and transport magnified by the resister's asthmatic and heart condition. That method of hold is not life-threatening. And the misdirected logic of your statement, if not sarcasm, could be taken as a deliberate lie to foster sympathy for the perpetrator and shifting the blame to the officer carrying out his duty.
If in this case you would jail the officer, I believe that you have a bad case of misplaced compassion. The person who needed to be jailed was the hustler for his continuous history of disobeying the law.
In the country I grew up in - America - police were respected public safety officers, who were respectful and well disciplined to use minimum force.
If you believe in this exaggeration of the conduct of police against law-breakers, it sounds to me like belief in a fairy tale. Perhaps in your youth they were faced with fewer and less violent scofflaws threatening them. Or perhaps in your youth you hadn't yet turned on the police, and therefore only saw the response of officers to those respecting them (which is still the way they seem to be behaving toward me).
And it is an offense to me to see people incited to riot by deliberately fixing the blame in the wrong place for the wrong motivation, and by those who support that dangerous attitude toward law enforcement.