Cardiac arrest because of what they did to him. And I’ve got eyes, PLUS I’ve been put in one of these one armed choke holds, many years ago. I called the police because my drunk husband wouldn’t let me and the kids into the house and he was making faces at us through the window. But it was late and I’d worked all day and was only 4 weeks post partum, with a critically ill infant in the hospital, so I just cut to the chase and called the cops. The one that answered the call was in a foul mood and hadn’t wanted to answer a call (he said so) so far, and maybe not a domestic call. Bill was obviously drunk and out of control, but I was the one who said “Nevermind!” and walked away to lay head on the car. I was exhausted. He snatched me up in a choke hold and dragged me backwards across the yard. Even husband sobered up and tried to tell him, I’d just had a C-Sec and there were these workmen working on the parking lot next door and their mouths were hanging open. He forced me down on the ground, which made my scar start bleeding. Threw me in jail for resisting arrest. How could I have resisted??? He had me by the throat.
Cops just overreact sometimes. Caused me years of fear and trepidation around them.
I’m so sorry to read of this experience. I feel ill at what happened to you.
Thanks for posting. It does help me to remember that cops will lie. And even “official reports” and autopsies can be fabricated to support their version of events.
That isn’t a choke hold.
It’s a take down.
Indeed they do, and more than a few of the recipients of that overreaction make a B-line for law school.