When force is involved bad things can happen. The takedown may have been bad technique but the police didn’t intend to kill the guy.
You can greatly reduce the odds of this sort of thing happening to you by not getting yourself cited for selling cigarettes eight times in a row and then resisting arrest when they finally do arrest you.
They should have put him in a cage for his 2nd offense of selling loose cigs....Beside, he wasn’t paying his fair share of taxes I bet!!!
NY should up the regulations on selling loose cigs to $5,000 and 1 year probation per every illegal cigarette sold.
That’s why I’m always careful when dealing with the police.
You never know what kind of cop you are dealing with.
That said, I really don’t like this idea that the cop gets away with excessive force as long as the suspect was disrespectful or uncooperative.
Some situations absolutely call for this kind of force.
I don’t care how many tickets this guy got. There’s no reason to create a deadly situation over it and give the race pimps another reason to riot and loot.
There just needs to be better judgement exercised in the field by these guys.
They hurt themselves and the community in the long run with this kind of crap.
It would be better to let the small stuff slide.
There are so many nanny state regulations that people can’t get from point A to point B without violating some law.
Just read your state Transportation Code (or equivalent) and you’ll be amazed.
The legal net is so wide that they can basically pick the person and then decide what law they are breaking.
I see it all the time as a lawyer.
Be careful out there. I truly hope none of my family or FRiends ever have to experience being on the end of a police brutality case.
They happen to the guilty and innocent alike, and of all races.