The boys in blue obviously had a charge to arrest him on. question 1: how much do you think it costs to arrest him, manpower, gas/use of vehicle for transportation to station, booking, feeding him, then more transportation to and from court, Judge and DA salary, court time, all for at most 50cents in lost tax revenue for ONE smoke
question 2: do you think it's money well spent in a brokeass city when cops are told NOT to arrest people for less than one ounce of pot???
a little discretion was in order there, don't you think?
or is it even remotely possible the cop was just being a jerk?
So, do you think the cops should let everyone who resists or becomes combative go? I don’t.
This guy resisted arrest. He had a heart attack in the process. It happens. The choke did not cause his death.
I have already said, and will say again, this is what happens when you live in a socialist state like New York. I am not here to talk about socialist laws in socialist states. That is what America is turning into. They voted for it, Garner, if he voted, likely voted for every liberal democrat ever spawned.
That’s why they have, as you say, a brokeass city. I live in a democrat brokeass city. I know what it’s like though I did not vote liberal. I see it here every day.
I don’t give a rats what the crime was, if they had enough to arrest him he should have complied and had his day in court. Afterward he could have filed a lawsuit. He contributed to his own death.
Where I work you are allowed to put your arm around someones neck to control them. Rendering them unconscious is now at the deadly force level. That’s because of stories like this, ‘Choke hold kills man.’ The media has been telling that lie for years because it involves minorities.