saintmichaeldefendthem
Gold Member
The fat man was selling loose fucking cigarettes. Against the law? Yeah. But worthy of an ARREST? No. Worthy, I guess, of maybe the issuance of a ticket (in NYC it's called a desk appearance ticket).
That's what this petty ass "offense" was worth.
But the police instead elected to make an arrest for some reason. And here's the sad part in this case. Folks don't have a legal right to resist even an unlawful arrest, much less a lawful arrest.
This is a clusterfuck of tragedy and poor choices. But it was not a choke hold that caused the poor guy's death. My hunch is that we can look more at fried foods and a lack of meaningful exercise.
What if, instead, it was old age. Say the guy was 81 years old and died because of the rigors of the arrest. There's all kinds of medical conditions that can put somebody on the precipice of death, some we control and others we can't. But we still blame the person who pushes them over. The man was killed over cigarettes. Instead of singing the praises of the arresting officers, we should be decrying a government so powerful that people are being killed over the sale of a legal product.