Posted on 04/07/2019 8:44:29 AM PDT by wastedyears
Perhaps you need to become a police officer so you can mete out correct justice. I can’t tell anything by this video, and what are we not seeing? Being a policeman is a low-paying thankless job. Damned if you do, damned if you don’t. Doesn’t mean that all policemen are correct in every situation, but then no one I ever met is without mistakes. But it certainly is easy to sit back and criticize.
“Are police given ANY training on how to deal with people having medical or psychological problems?”
The training consists of “Shoot them until your weapon runs out of bullets.”
Will you criticize his actions of arresting a man for having a seizure?
No I won’t. I have too little information to pass judgement.
"All of a sudden he reaches down there and puts him in a choke hold and puts his knee in his back and goes from there,” said Darrell Knox, Chris’ father, describing what he saw in the video. “It just escalated."
Officer Norris wrestled with Chris for two minutes before the two men separated. When Officer Tiffany Christy arrived as backup, Officer Norris tackled Chris, throwing him to the ground.
"She started helping the other officer,” said Darrell. “I would say beat him instead of control him. They were kicking him, cussing, everything. Then they tased him also."
"He has violent seizures,” said Darrell. “When I say violent, I mean he flails his arms and his body. Me and my son, both of us, we can't even hold him down. He’s just extra strong, if you will."
"If this happens again, which I'm sure it's going to, they need to be trained better,” Darrell said. “At least have one medical officer go in there instead of just an officer that decides they're going to kick the crap out of my son."
All that from the article... do you still believe the officer's actions to be justified?
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