It's a partial video. No one knows what was going on before the recording, or after. The jurors who decided not to indict know a heck of a lot more than we do.
Remember, things are not always the way the media reports them. Things may not be at all what they seem.
Unless all the facts are released (which probably won't be because they don't fit De blasios narrative), I'm siding with the jury.
(Remember how the media replayed the 911 call during the martin thing? They deliberately left out the race question asked by the 911 operator, and made the recording sound like zimmerman didn't like martin simply because he was a black man.)
And no reason to think they won't do the same thing with a po-po body cam video on the Nightly News.
Acutally, this case is 100% proof that a video of an incident is not the be all, end all.
I doubt this guy would have put up any resistance to arrest had he not have been arrested 31 times for other offenses. I don’t know if they were misdemeanors or felonies, but he was no saint.
I believe many around here are willing to indict this cop as a trade off in their mind to ease the tensions that have been created over Ferguson. I admit to thinking the same myself until I started thinking that perhaps I can’t tell the whole story from a video.
The Grand jury came to this conclusion. Until I see that they were way off base, I won’t deride them for doing their job.
At the worst, there was more than one guy subduing this fella. How do we know who did any damage if any, caused by cops? I see the same already judged and hanged behavior right here on FR that I saw on MSNBC.
As far as I know, no FReeper was on the Grand Jury, but it seems this time, we are, without any real knowledge about what we are talking about, are willing to decide we know better than those presented with evidence. Evidence that was not weighted by any defense evidence as in Ferguson.
If there were to be any charges, and there still could be, this case wouldn’t pass muster for anything other than negligent homicide.
Another consideration is that maybe our overlords wanted a no true bill here too. Just a thought!