People in cuffs can get up and run quite easily. Especially when super excited and on drugs. Gf was not overweight and was capable. Should some things probably have been done different, sure. Hindsight is always 2020, especially when one is not in the middle of a stressful situation. Do I think he was purposefully killed, no. His own actions caused his situation and death that day. Truthfully, the police shouldn't have even had to deal with him, if the judicial system was functioning. He should've been in prison for many of his previous crimes.
But I stand on my previous statement: That particular cop was a piece of shit for doing what the did. Dude was already in cuffs, behind back, laying face down on the ground. And no, he would not get up and run away in that situation. Not any chance in Hell, so cop was not justified in doing what he did, and mugging for the camera was evidence (to me) that he knew he was being an asshole.
People in cuffs can get up and run quite easily. Especially when super excited and on drugs. Gf was not overweight and was capable. Should some things probably have been done different, sure. Hindsight is always 2020, especially when one is not in the middle of a stressful situation. Do I think he was purposefully killed, no. His own actions caused his situation and death that day. Truthfully, the police shouldn't have even had to deal with him, if the judicial system was functioning. He should've been in prison for many of his previous crimes.
I agree that it was not murder.
But I stand on my previous statement: That particular cop was a piece of shit for doing what the did. Dude was already in cuffs, behind back, laying face down on the ground. And no, he would not get up and run away in that situation. Not any chance in Hell, so cop was not justified in doing what he did, and mugging for the camera was evidence (to me) that he knew he was being an asshole.