Sickening. Ill say it again, until the police REALLY feel that their lives would be in danger after incidents like this; they will continue. The only ones who could have stopped this was the crowd that unfortunately got traumatized themselves. Only time US police care about community policing and focusing on de-escalating when the power dynamic in a situation has shifted (I remember the somber tone focused on healing division after the Dallas police shooting tragedy, particularly because I read news stories about Dallas going out of their way to improve)
Right now the excuse they use to murder people is that 'Well, it's them or us'. If they knew that excessive violence would be met in kind, maybe they would be more motivated to de-escalate.
Because now, what happens. They paint him as 'not an angel' as if being drunk or high is a capital offense. They get put on administrative leave. They say because he was drunk or high he was fighting back against him they kept his knee on his neck.
Maybe they go for bonus points and say 'We kept him down because we feared the growing crowd might act erratically and put us and him in danger"
For some reason there isn't anything in their local police rulebook about knees on necks. As a result the local police union will say 'Well, the cops weren't given proper guidance'. They will keep their jobs, the city will cut a check to the family of the deceased that gets buried in a budget, and tomorrow another 'not an angel' dies.
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