Based on what is being shown all over the news, I think it would be difficult to come up with evidence that does not support a criminal charge. What is repeated on TV (and yes, I actually have watched the news clips for a change) is a Black man in handcuffs coming out of a building ...same man is down on the ground with a cop's knees into his neck.
What happened in between? I mean first he is on the walk-side upright and being treated as he should...
And then he is on the street side, all balled up against the squad car with cops close-order around him and one of them on his head...
Don't it seem like maybe something else went on?
So ... I'm still trying to discern how someone who is handcuffed could pose such a severe threat that warrants him being on the ground with a knee to the neck. That's that issue. The next issue is the man on the ground stated more than once he couldn't breathe. Again, he's in handcuffs...what threat did he pose that would warrant the cop continuing to knee him in the neck? I don't find it very plausible that there is evidence to suggest that this abuse was warranted and that there was no criminal wrongdoing by the cop.
Cops get pretty inured to claims of complaint and pain. Everybody says they're killin em. The man obviously could breath or he wouldn't be speaking. I know for a fact that hold does not cause suffocation, and so does the cop. It becomes pretty easy to understand why the cop ignored his pleas.
Personally I think the guy had a heart episode or something... Sad the cop was not alarmed, but understandable.
Yes, the media and others (including myself) have already presumed that the cop is guilty. If anyone can come up with a scenario of how a man in handcuffs could pose a imminent threat and danger to the cop, please let me know.
I don't know what happened... But if it were me, and i am in custody, and I struggle or bolt, the take-down would look a whole lot like that.
It is about being subdued. Compliance. Stop the bullsh*t and I let up on you. And it happens just like that all the time.