Once the cops have him in cuffs they're responsible for him.I have watched all the video footage I can find on the police interaction with the decedent. I have yet to be outraged. As with most of these alleged “police brutality” cases, it all starts with the perp fighting, resisting police and trying to escape (and interfering/obstructing a criminal investigation). In other words, the decedent escalates the situation and places everyone in danger. The officers were not “murdering” the perp; they were subduing him. I wonder what the decedent’s toxicology report would show. But assuming it’s clean, the decedent obviously set the cops off. His actions must be taken into account when judging the police actions.
To be clear, I am not saying that cops should generally be permitted to kick a restrained criminal in the head repeatedly. However, officers need to have a certain amount of latitude, gauged by context, to be human. I am quite sure that if all these outraged people were in the cops’ shoes in this matter they too would want to kick the fuck out of this brains-for-shit guy after having to fight with this yo-yo and chase him down.
Second degree murder charges against these officers in these circumstances is a joke. This is a case of media-created false outrage driven by video images lacking context (I.e., a misleading narrative). It is all smoke and mirrors with protests all queued up and ready to go. Saul Alinsky himself could not have created a better script for societal discord.
They continued to kick him in the face even though he was face-down ready to be stuffed into the cop car.
It was murder.