Posted on 12/20/2014 2:22:32 PM PST by Rusty0604
We can fairly debate the idiocy of NY tax law, but the point is he had been arrested for it before, he decide to resist this time when he was in very poor condititon, and it was the exertion of resisting that killed him, not the hold (hardly a chokehold as it was not across his windpipe). There is no way the cops could know he was in poor health, they just had a large man resisting a legal arrest and did not use excessive force in getting him to the ground.
You should do your research. The guy had been arrested numerous times for selling loose cigarettes because nearby business filed complaints about him with the police, because they did not like the illegal competition.
Whitney Houston is still dead and a plane is missing from Malaysia.
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