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"Maybe I watched the wrong video. All I could see was backlighted black shapes with bystanders moving in front of them. It was like the Rodney King video done with sock puppets on a darkened stage. And like the Rodney King incident, we have no idea what happened just before the video started. Obviously it was something fairly significant, since there were 3-4 police cars there already, and two more came screaming up during the video. Also like King, this guy was strong enough to assault and injure two officers, so they are going to take that very seriously."

No, you were watching the correct video. The inmates around here just can't believe there may have been any justification, at all. And, I agree, the father is just an opportunist looking for the retirement ticket. Tragic. Now watch you and I get flamed. I've already received 15 (or thereabouts) angry responses to my post. None but yours displays a shred of reasonableness.

“No, you were watching the correct video. The inmates around here just can’t believe there may have been any justification, at all. And, I agree, the father is just an opportunist looking for the retirement ticket. Tragic. Now watch you and I get flamed. I’ve already received 15 (or thereabouts) angry responses to my post. None but yours displays a shred of reasonableness.”

Since we all are in the dark on exactly what started this “encounter”, just exactly what would this man have to have done, to the police, to justify this?

Thank you. Here’s even more reasonableness. Is there any information about the guy’s condition prior to meeting up with the police? I ask because normally police officers are trained to avoid striking people in the face or head. As Scotsman will be Free said, sometimes these guys are in pretty bad shape already by the time the police find them.

The news media is no help in cases like this. All they know about the guy is this:

1. Met up with the police
2. Got into a scuffle
3. Died

Then they write their own story to fill in the blanks and end up accusing the police of murder. There’s no thought to actual cause and effect, as evidenced by the lurid headlines we keep seeing, “Man dies after being tasered by police.” It would be the same for this hypothetical woman:

1. Came home from work
2. Ate a cookie from the cookie jar
3. Died

“Woman dies after eating cookie,” right? But was she also bitten by a coral snake, or fell down a flight of stairs, or had a fatal asthma attack? We don’t know. It’s the same with this guy. We just don’t know the full story yet.

Anyone who would believe a mainstream media news article and base an opinion entirely on that is fooling himself.

The inmates around here just can't believe there may have been any justification, at all.

I can't believe you used the word "justification" ?

I watched the video as well and quite frankly there isn't a lot to see, except for the picture of the guys face turned to mush and his dead body in the morgue.

I don't care how much a guy is resisting or fighting back, there is no "justification" for the end result. A guy beat to a pulp and dead by 5 or 6 LEO

Are not these officers trained for this type of encounter ? 5 or 6 officers could not put this guy in handcuffs ? He wasn't 6'5' 260 lbs body builder.