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The man is obviously impaired somehow but isn’t going anywhere. There were plenty of cops to manage the situation.
He wasn’t resisting as in trying to get away. He didn’t get his arms behind his back enough to be cuffed.
They got him into a prone position with his chest down and knee and weight on his back. He was howling in either pain or fear as the cops comment that he is kicking his legs and trying to lift his head. Then they notice he has no pulse and start cpr.
The guy was messed up from the start. He looked intoxicated but also hunched over like he was sick. They could have sat him down and waited for EMT.
I see nothing so absolutely urgent that they had to force him on his chest trying to cuff him.
I saw nothing like I would call resistance. I know they can charge you with resisting arrest for just about anything but there is a huge difference between assaulting officers and not being in the words of doctor fowler “perfectly compliant”
His struggle against the pain and inability breathe is again misinterpreted as resistance right up to the moment they notice he had no pulse. Just as George Floyds attempts to breathe and even death rattle were called resistance in that trial.
What was so urgent about getting him cuffed right that minute that makes his death necessary? I’m not so interested in the criminal culpability of the police. Why couldn’t they have acted differently so no one died.
They might have even followed procedure. I don’t see how that makes it better
Edit to clarify that it’s not that I don’t care about the culpability but that argument will be made on its own with lots of justified support. I want to expand it to of the question of how do we stop so many people getting killed by police without the dodge of but procedure said they could.
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