I’m really torn by this grand jury decision because the Police should not have used the excessive force they did on this victim because the sale of a single cigarette.
Though at the same time the Victim is also responsible because he failed to submit to the officers authority,when the officer told him he was under arrest.
All the Victim had to do was willingly submit and he would have been out of jail in hours instead of dead.
The way I see it the Police should have used a Tazer on this guy as soon as he started to resist.Though,There is no guarantee he would have survived that with his health issues.
The bottom line here is that You don’t Resist the Police when you’re placed under arrest.
You (editorial you) need to separate the "crime" from the arrest process IMO. Whatever he was doing (or not doing), it becomes irrelevant when he resists arrest. Yesterday I saw some fool on FR make the statement that "The guy was smuggling cigarettes. Apparently, that is a capital offence in some places."
The cop may or may not be in the right - but it has nothing to do with cigarettes.