“And the knee to the neck was acceptable police procedure.”
You’d be okay with it if it were someone you love being held down like that until they died?
It’s acceptable procedure, right? Nothing personal. They’re just going to pile on to your loved one because it’s what they do and if your son/brother/father dies then that’s just too bad.
That would also make a great epitaph: “It was acceptable police procedure”
You’d be okay with it if it were someone you love being held down like that until they died?
This is why I put the blame on the person doing it, the department chief approving it, the mayor that appointed the chief and the voters that elected the mayor.
If an officer shoots an unarmed perp running from the scene of the crime and it turns out to be your innocent brother, and it is considered approved police procedure to do that, the problem is not the cop. It is the department that approves the procedure. Of course, if you can prove the cop knew the guy was innocent, that’s a different story.
But as the facts come in, this case could really morph into something other than what many of us think it is. It happened with the Zimmerman/Martin case.
I’ll stop pretending to give a rat’s ass what happened to this drug dealing, porn star wannabe crackhead who was in jail 5 times, and you can pause your liberal white-guilt, cop-hating issue with the arresting cops :)