Let me guess. The cops just picked him ar random and choked him for no reason at all.
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You got it. Haven’t you seen enough of these not to know the drill? They picked his name out of the phone book or where they get names now.
Pounding on occupied cars, trying to open the doors, harrassed a woman tried to get in her car, on drugs, mentally ill, enlarged heart, attacked cops, they called an ambulance early. Restraining Ellis was necessary - did they lean on him too long, position him badly, not respond to medical distress?
Or, did they do the best that could be expected, and did he die in spite of it? An an editorial written as reporting, with the assumption that whenever a black man dies in police custody, the police killed him? The writer should do some real reporting, not simply accuse.