I have read that he had 17 total complaints.
Only two resulted in punishment or reprimand, and those two were not excessive force complaints.
The only significant thing I see about this case is that the cop was white, and the criminal was Black.
If the cop was Black and the criminal was white, I would not care.
In my universe, a 45 year old white male who uses fentanyl and meth, who has heart disease and high blood pressure, who has a record of violent crime, who passes counterfeit money, and who resists arrest - that white man is personally responsible for whatever happens to him.
You must not have very good reading comprehension.
In Minnesota, the county attorney is responsible for pursuing excessive force complaints against the police.
Guess who the county attorney used to be?
Amy Klobuchar, Democrat Party US Senator from MN, and until this blew up, hopeful for VP under Joe Biden.
I don’t care about your own private little short-bus special universe. If you are in police custody, they have responsibility for your life and health.
(Hint: if the guy had been a terrorist in Iraq, our soldiers would have been court-martialed for doing this to him.
If he’d been convicted of raping and killing a kid, killing him like this would be cruel and unusual punishment.
He’d already been duly convicted. And served his sentence. Did the police under whose very body weight he died, know this about him at the time? Or is this the political machine of Dems in Minneapolis trying to cover for yet another killing-by-police,
like the guy who got shot by a cop at a traffic stop in front of his girlfriend and son after telling the cop who pulled him over, he had a lawful concealed carry permit, or the Australian woman shot and killed in her pajamas by a cop firing from inside his own squad car, after she was the one who called 911 for help?)
The now-ex-cop is in jail on $500,000 bond because he did not bother to even try CPR on a man he’d had his neck on for 9 straight minutes; after the guy said he couldn’t breathe, then passed out, then soiled himself, and one of the other cops holding him down said, hey, the guy doesn’t have a pulse.
The element of 3rd degree murder in Minnesota doesn’t require intent. It requires Depraved Indifference.
Mr. Kneecap is on camera — a single 9-minute long shot, uninterrupted, unedited, by a bystander six feet away.
He even brandishes his can of mace at a bystander trying to help the poor guy.
But instead, he kept his knee on the neck of a dying handcuffed man in his custody, instead of giving CPR, even after his fellow COP told him the guy had no pulse.
That’s Depraved Indifference.
I give you credit for honestly offering your color-coded concern.
I watched a man die with a smug faced cop's knee on his neck; a cop who repeatedly refused pleas for help by the dying man and multiple witnesses.
I totally agree. Apparently common sense has been swept aside in this case, even on FR.