A tragedy.
One that will continue to happen.
The police arrests a dangerously agitated man, that resists arrest. Being Muscular and 6’7” several police wrestle with him for over ten minutes and are unable to put him in the police vehicle as he is agitated and high on amphetamines.
Their only choice is to bring him to ground, where he continues to resist, eventually held and immobilized for an additional nine minutes with a knee to the neck at which point he dies.
The knee to the neck is an approved method for immobilization of a resisting subject included in the training manual for that department. No choke hold was applied. The cop, however ignored the pleas of the subject that he could not breathe.
How is the police supposed to know that he was infected with COVID-19 and thus had respiratory problems?
How is the police supposed to know that he had as much Fentanyl in his bloodstream as the dosage they give terminal patients (drugged out of his mind)?. Fentanyl depresses the respiratory system and causes death.
How is the police supposed to know that he had an enlarged heart and suffered from heart problems? The autopsy indicated a heart attack as cause of death (not asphyxiation, not choking).
So a man struggles for over twenty minutes and dies of a heart attack.. pretty common just like a man shoveling snow in winter and suffering the same fate.
What can the police do? What could they have done differently? Possibly handcuff him, and ankle cuff him and leave him alone in the ground..
But it will happen again.
I think the solution is to inform people not to resist arrest. Not to fight the police.
If Floyd had sat on the police cruiser he would still be alive and the lives of four cops would not have been destroyed.
A tragedy.
And why are racist people assume there was racial bias in this arrest? What does it have to do with the color of anybody’s skin?
And to add to all of that...
If you remove immunity from the police, why would any person work for the police department?
As long as people resists arrest tragedies like this will continue to happen.
Fyi