The man is dead because that cop killed him, surely there is some sort of penalty for doing that.
So let’s just throw out some of these old fashioned ideas like the Bill of Rights, the Constitution, double jeopardy, grand jury, on and on.
Isn’t that the issue and the only issue at this point. The top man at the City of New York (Blasio) is saying in effect “ok, we killed him”.
Ok back, “so what”..........well “so what” is that all that is really left to do is talk about the penalty. The cops will want him retired with full pay to a beach in the Virgin Islands. The race industry will want him slowly burned alive at the stake in Central Park while the bros burn the town down and loot all the stores with the police and national guard watching.
I predict he will get completely off the hook because the cops just aren’t gonna allow him to be convicted! When they want to, they have that kind of clout. What happens next is anybody’s guess.
I have to disagree that the "cop killed him." The man died because he was so obese that the weight of his body, combined with his asthma, constricted his ability to breathe, because of his position on his stomach with his hands behind his back, put him into a downward spiral and he suffered positional asphyxia. An expert on the situation called in and talked to Mark Levin today and said that once he was in that downward spiral, even EMTs on the scene probably could not have saved him.
The question to ask is, is it proper for the police to leave a man of that build in that position for that length of time while waiting for transportation or should they have turned him over, especially after he told them he was in respiratory distress? The answer to that question may be yes, they should turn at least onto his side to facilitate breathing. They did not.
Was that negligence? Probably not if they had not been trained in the consequences of leaving him on his stomach. Once trained and made aware of the possible consequences, then it would be.
In THIS case, I think there is an unfortunate set of circumstances that resulted in his death consequential from his bad choices and the ignorance of the police. No criminal act.