After HE stupidly ignored the police command to put his hands behind his back, choosing, rather to say this ends now.
The Founders would have NO idea who these bands of roving blue-clad "warriors" were.
Yep, it was choosing to resist arrest that got him killed.
"Obey."
Back around 1776, there were a whole bunch of people who ignored government commands.
Unfortunate this comes on the heels of the Ferguson decision. It sort of delegitimizes the Ferguson grand jury decision.
The choking case in my mind was not quite murder, but definitely not innocent.
It seems to me that the cop, faced with passive aggression like he was, reverted to physical methods to regain control of the situation. We only see it because the unfortunate man was in an unhealthy condition and died. Had he not died this would have amounted to a short 1 paragraph boxed story buried in news paper.
Yet it is the very nature of police to control encounters. We just need to pick smarter police.