Liberal boy, show cause for confiscating the phones of bystanders.
I am not interested in the police state you personally espouse.
I don't support it at all. But confiscating someone's cell phone is grounds for, at best, a stern talking to. If a prosecutor manages to make a case against them, it will have to be on the basis of evidence not revealed in this news story. Let's revisit this story in a year, and we'll see whether the eyewitness's testimony is credible enough to get these guys indicted on manslaughter charges or worse.
Note also that Rodney King's arrest kicked off the LA riots and looked bad on video. In reality, it was highly-edited and the guy wasn't seriously injured. The dead guy might have had a medical condition. Besides, why would anyone trust the liberal, pro-criminal, anti-cop media on stories like this? Didn't they make Rodney King look like an older version of Trayvon Martin? Do you trust them on amnesty? Aren't they the ones downplaying Benghazi, the IRS and AP scandals? Don't they think that we imprison too many minorities and that capital punishment is medieval? Frankly, they could swap places with Soviet-era Pravda and Tass reporters and most of their stories would be the same.