Posted on 06/05/2017 6:51:18 PM PDT by SpeedyInTexas
A police officer was arrested Monday on a charge of involuntary manslaughter, accusing him of killing an unarmed man with a martial arts-type neck hold after a chase through a Las Vegas Strip casino, authorities said.
Kenneth Lopera, 31, posted $6,000 bail and was released from jail with an August court date in the May 14 choking death of 40-year-old Tashii S. Brown after a chase through back hallways of The Venetian casino
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Tashii S. Brown ——Got Da picture.
Anybody been following this? First I’ve read.
Tashii is male? ok-— beat him with that metal pipe given to him to replace that sissy baton.. oh, wait, Rodney King is screaming from Hell.
"That's your problem, right there."
Keep a carotid blood choke on anyone for more than a few seconds, and you can kill them, no problem. That's one reason that fighters tap out so quickly in MMA, and referees will do it for them—by ending the fight—if they don't.
That sort of choke, if properly done, will render anybody unconscious in just a few seconds. Maintaining any such hold significantly beyond that point is extremely dangerous, and palpably negligent.
Is this officer—who identifies his racial heritage as Colombian and Puerto Rican, and trains in Brazilian jiu jitsu—going to try and claim that the subject was still conscious during that minute? Because if that isn't the case, he's guilty of negligent manslaughter at the very least...
Some years back, 1980’s?, LA PD had a similar problem.
‘T’ shirts were being sold with phrase: “Smoke’em don’t choke’em!”.
“Stop resisting...stop resisting”
Yep. You rarely see the choke hold applied correctly in the movies and I'm grateful for that (about the only thing I am grateful to Hollywood for). It's not to be messed with. I learned it and one of its variants in Jiu Jitsu and I would NEVER put it on anyone unless it were a matter of life or death because death can occur within seconds.
Seven electric shocks wouldn't make this guy compliant? I would want to see toxicology reports before making any decisions.
A deputy’s husband has been charged in Harris County, Texas for choking a drunk guy to death. Witnesses and videos show he choked the guy for 15 minutes. The altercation started because the drunk was pissing in public. Last I heard the female deputy may be charged as well.
Fifteen minutes??? That’s first degree murder; i.e., willful, premeditated murder with malice aforethought. You don’t maintain a choke hold on someone for 15 minutes without having every intention of killing him with no chance of surviving it.
You can do that with a terrorist if you have to (I’d rather shoot him), and that’s fine. But not with some drunk you caught peeing in public. Of course, a public urination arrest can escalate through no fault of the officer into a life or death struggle, but from what you telling me, this was not that kind of situation.
Rear naked choke, but no ref?
So the victim asked the cop for help...and the cop killed him.
Makes sense.
The choker is not a cop. His wife is a deputy. And he choked the guy in front of the guy’s little girl.
A person recorded it on his cell phone and came forward through an attorney. He’s smart enough to remain anonymous since he has evidence against a deputy and her husband. The attorney says the video shows the man’s legs jerking and he can be heard gurgling.
The officer is totally innocent. Wacked out on meth and tazed seven times, tried to evade the officer, the dead man had to be stopped. End of story.
Sounds like the deputy’s husband may not have been trained and may not have known what he was doing. The fact that he held it for 15 minutes says so. The fact that the dead guy was gurgling says so. In a properly applied choke hold, you can’t make a sound. But we’re talking probabilities and can’t decide anything here. It needs to go to a courtroom. All around tragedy if you ask me. Poor little girl who saw her daddy die like that... I hope she’s too young to remember it.
That happened in Portland, right after the police had choked the death an innocent man, a Marine who was just helping to control a crowd.
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