[Roccus]

Alzheimer's patients can get pretty violent. Don't know if this guy was or not, but there's a lot of other things we don't know as well.

He was 77 years old!!! How much of a physical threat could he pose to couple of cops?

PS....I spent several years as a primary caregiver

[MEGoody]

PS....I spent several years as a primary caregiver

To violent Alzheimer's patients?

How much of a physical threat could he pose to couple of cops?

That's one of the things we don't know. But if the police (or facility staff) had wrestled with the guy trying to get him back to the facility, and he fell and hit his head and died, would you still consider it murder? If not, why not?

Neither physical restraint nor tazing is supposed to kill anyone, so how is one different from the other?