So what’s being implied... either the drug “caused it” (how?) or he somehow deserved this extrajudicial sentence?
Could imply anything, really, from the cops being so tired of this guy’s act that they fatally assaulted him, to Freddie freaking out on cocaine and injuring himself while the cops tried to subdue him, to Freddie having some sort of narcotics-related seizure. Whatever the implication, it’s instructive to know the world Freddie was existing in. That’s important background when the media tries to make him another “gentle giant.”