This man’s death has been ruled a homicide.
http://www.wjla.com/articles/2013/02/robert-saylor-s-death-file-sent-to-top-prosecutor-85454.html
I find it unbelievable that you are defending assaulting a man who is mentally a child.
A man should not have died for want of one movie ticket. Period.
Of course it was ruled a homicide. It wasn’t a suicide. The coroner only has a few choices. All police involved ‘homicides’ go to the prosecutor for review.
Where did I defend assaulting the mentally ill?
You weren’t there. Neither was I. Until all the facts come out I don’t know how reasonable people can condemn the officers. That’s all I’m saying.
This is from your own link:
Saylor died of asphyxiation Jan. 12 after three sheriff’s deputies tried to forcibly remove him from a Frederick movie theater at the manager’s request. The state medical examiner’s office has ruled the death a homicide.
“There did come a point when they had to remove him from his seat,” says Jenkins. “There was no excess force. They did have to handcuff Mr. Saylor and unfortunately as they were walking out he suffered a medical emergency.”
Smith says the file doesn’t include the final autopsy report on Saylor. He says his office will need that document to complete its investigation.
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The autopsy report isn’t even in yet. It looks to me that the physical exertion may have been too much for him. This is very unfortunate.
My 55 year old obese brother in law takes his teenage son to the movies. He brags about paying for one movie and then jumping from movie to movie and spending the whole day in the theater.
In my opinion it’s stealing. And he’s teaching his son to steal.
If he was ordered to leave by the police and did the same thing that happened here, I wouldn’t feel sorry for him if he keeled over. And it would be ruled a homicide.
People die from over exerting themselves during arrest, it’s going to happen. Cops die from over exertion while fighting with people.
Maybe we should just give overweight people who break the law a pass if they start to resist. Or people that might have a mental problem. I’ve had to fight with plenty of both.
Maybe we shouldn’t enforce trespassing laws on obese or mentally disturbed people? Maybe we should do away with private property, that way there will be no trespassing problems.
Maybe we should stop making arrests for anything except violent felonies. Just issue a summons and hope they show up for court.