Posted on 07/18/2014 1:04:10 PM PDT by PoloSec
Part of the problem is there are WAY WAY too many laws on the books. We’ve given the cops too many excuses to turn people’s lives upside down. For no good reason.
The answers to your question, are not clearly in the video.
The fellow who recorded the video, says that the deceased had broken up a fight.
The government showed him what happens when ya fail to obey, didn't they wideawake?
I knew you were attempting to blame the black man for what occurred here from your very first disgusting post.
You'd support government and those on their payroll regardless.
This is nothing new with you.
When someone says they aren't going to comply with an arrest, should the cops say: "Hey, bro. Not in the mood to come down to the station? I totally get it, dude. Here's our address - when you feel like stopping by, we'll have a holding cell ready for you."
What should they have done? Just let him take charge of the situation? Defer to his "feelings"?
Is this Eric Holder?
See #41. Do we really need protection from evil cigarette salesmen?
I don’t think so wideawake.
You’re not asking the questions here...
It’s more of your BS evasiveness distraction and deceit, while attempting to deflect from your initial disgusting post here.
It was clear with your first post you were laying blame to what occurred not on the cops warlike, obey or else tactics, but the black guy who they literally choked to death...
Obey or die...I’ve seen your pro-biggov comments before.
I reread the story again.
So, the police thought that the guy had been selling cigarettes illegally. Did the police have proof, that he was selling cigarettes illegally?
My concern here is, were the police in the process of making a formal arrest? or did they want to handcuff the guy so that they could continue their investigation to see if he had been engaged in illegal activity?
The handcuffs should only come out if the cops are in the process of making an arrest. I have seen too much of this where the cops handcuff someone for their own safety as the continue to troll for evidence.
If it turns out that this man was not engaged in illegal activity, then these cops should all go to jail. This, ‘Us’, against, ‘Them’, mentatlilty must end...
Something his lawyer could have raised in court, in fact, if he had acted rationally.
Not to mention if he hadn’t been killed.
It USED TO BE that the local citizens could convene a grand jury w/o the blessings of the judiciary.
Just regular people.
Not anymore...
(they still can in six states)
The standard for detaining someone is, and always has been, "probable cause."
I bet his concern was they continued choking him to death after he repeatedly gasped the words, "I can't breath" over and over.
Except, of course, that he wasn’t.
Keep posting here wideawake.
I want everyone on the forum to watch the video and read your comments.
Give him a call. See if he answers.
A homicide, even a negligent homicide, is based on the accused having a reasonable expectation that the dead man would die as a direct result of his action or inaction.
Every year many, many hundreds of big guys who resist arrest find themselves in a choke hold.
Very few die of a massive coronary.
It would fit your racial obsessions perfectly.
It also shows, I'm sure you would agree, a poor and saintly man brutalized by evil policeman for absolutely no reason.
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