Not if he died just as they laid hold of him. Now if they cuffed him and had him face down for several minutes while kneeling on his neck, then hell yes.
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Okay. Well, then what if he was out of control and fighting the police, and their training TOLD them to cuff him and kneel on his neck? Still murder?
But he wasn’t at no point in any video was he “out of control fighting the police.” At the time he was on the ground, he was already cuffed.
He was never out of control. If he had been, he would have been tased.
This man was in cuffs and face-down. At that point, the officer had a number of options to deal with a troublesome suspect.
This officer chose to kneel on his neck. The fact that the officer had a cocksure smile while taunting the suspect indicates an element of malice and intent. At times suring the video he's looking around at bystanders as if he were part of a street performance.
If four cops can't wrangle a cuffed prisoner into a cruiser, they need to find other work.