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.