I’m a law and order guy.
Try and run from the cops, unsafe speeds through streets
and you deserve a beat down if you then dont cooperate.
Its a shame he couldnt obey the words ‘stay down’.
Its also a shame that our cops are supposed to perform
like robots with no emotion. Its an almost impossible
request to ask cops to deal with trash and not have some
element(anger) rub off on them.
This wasn’t about a beatdown. He hadn’t been searched, threw off four guys who were trying to cuff him, got off the ground and charged Larry Powell, and kept trying to get up. If he’d stayed put, as he ultimately did, it would have ended as it ultimately did. Even the Federal jury who convicted Powell and Koon stated it started as a legitimate use of force against a resisting suspect.