How many times did they say, “Give me your hands!”? He didn’t. He did not want to be cuffed. This went on for a while.
I know my old white @$$ could not get away with defying the cops this long.
“We sleep soundly in our beds, because rough men stand ready in the night to do violence on those who would harm us.”
—George Orwell
You gotta be a rough man to be a cop. I wouldn’t want to be.
Tyre did everything wrong in a physical altercation with police - he yelled back, he struggled, he kicked, he ran. Its like his brain shut off and he was operating on pure adrenalin.
It doesn't justify his being beaten to death, and at this point, we don't know the justification for stopping him in the first place.
But like every major Police scandal there is - from Rodney King to Michael Brown to George Floyd - it began with a perp who refused to submit.
So how do you train police? Well, subdue the perp, especially if he fights you - "but not too much!"
Or if they resist, just let the perp go?
In the video I saw, two were holding one of his hands behind his back. He could not put the second hand back there because one of the other cops was holding it on the ground in front of him. That hold was obscured by the bodies, but became apparent when they moved away from him.
He might not have wanted to be cuffed, but one of the cops was preventing him from complying. That part of the video will be shown to the jury many times.