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Originally Posted by Tyrone Slothrop
I'm looking forward to the riots in 18 months when an arbitrator rules that they get their jobs back, with back pay.
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I see no way these guys avoid jail. This isn't Ferguson, where there was a weak defense that the officer felt threatened. This was more like that other case (it seems the cops kill a black person for no good reason what -- five, ten times a year now?) where the cop shot the guy in the back in South Carolina, and was convicted of murder.
The Garner case, to which this will be compared, is also significantly different. Garner was held down in a manner that was at least arguably (weak, but impossible to discount out of hand) consistent with typical efforts to subdue a person. This guy was strangled to death by a cop's knee on his throat while saying "I can't breath" over and over. I'm no cop, but I kind of - just a little bit - doubt that "knee on neck" is a prescribed form of subduing a suspect.
"If I hadn't choked him with my knee he may have accessed his pocket and, uh, pulled out...
another bad check!"
