You'll hear all the typical police rhetoric on this thread now. "He shouldn't have resisted arrest".... "he threatened the cops with a weapon"....."He probably choked himself to death", whatever. What's up with the South anwyay, I thought they progressed from that stereotypical 'good old boy' lunacy? The police in Florida are just as bad in arresting little girls, first graders, and tough ol' six year olds. In New Orleans they ran away from their jobs by the hundreds in the face of Katrina. I hope I never have any business in that part of the U.S.
If you think Police Abuse is limited to the South you don't read much news.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1710330/posts
I don't think it is so much a "south" problem as just a "criminal" or "negligence" (or "criminal negligence") problem. Columbia TN had the infamous jail fire in 1977 which killed 42 people.