When the law acts unreasonably people quickly lose respect for it. It has already reached a new low in the African American community. It will sink lower in other communities too. People do not like seeing unarmed men die at the hands of the police. “Justifiable” is a legal term that washes away criminal culpability, it does not wash away in people’s minds.
There are just too many laws. And as the people in the first video plainly made clear the police are not using their discretion wisely. And they end up doing things like this, which in this case could easily have been a distraction intended to draw the police away while perps try something even more grave. Now criminals know if they want to rob the cash in the beer stand send a couple of fat white guys to walk down the wrong aisle and holler at the cops. 6 or 8 or 12 cops will swarm, leaving the cash box an easier mark.
In this video a man was beaten and arrested for what appears to be a non-violent, non physical confrontation with the cops. New York, a man died because the cops wanted to hook and book him for selling cigarettes without paying the tax. In both cases the police could have issued a warning, or, issued a paper summons. They escalated it to violence when they didn’t need to, and probably shouldn’t have.
walking down the wrong aisle is a crime or something... weird
The “cigarette vendor” died because he had health issues that were aggravated when he resisted arrest; police had been called by merchants because he was harassing their customers.
I wouldn’t have fought with the cops; straighten it out legally rather than die on some pissed-stained sidewalk.