Stupid drunks Darwinize themselves all the time. This one just happened to be in the custody of the police when he did it.
A friend of mine drowned 10 or 12 years back while drunk and fishing. Last I knew his family was trying to sue the company that made the canoe, the township the pond is in, the county road commission (for giving him access) Anheuser-Busch and just about everybody else.
I lost another friend when he was out drinking with friends. He got his jacket hung up on the bumper of a pickup he just got out of, dragged out into a busy street and hit by multiple cars.
With another friend it was hill climbing in a Jeep. Drunk and without his harness on and the jeep rolled down the hill with him under it.
There are more than a few others and more close calls by myself. (Its why I don’t drink anymore)
The problem with the “Darwin paradigm” is that often the morons end up killing the fit.
My post was ambiguous. The moron was the cop who was too stupid to put a PFD properly on his prisoner.