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.
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.