Man Accidentally Killed by Police Choke Hold in Staten Island

[patrick1]

This sounds right. Also, cigarettes are expensive for a reason. AggregateDemand is on to something in pointing out that he would have had an untimely death one way or another.

His future was uncertain. My point is that the cause of death is directly attributable to his own self-neglect and his choice to resist arrest (assuming he actually did resist arrest). Can we really expect officers to preserve the life of citizens, who are inadvertently killing themselves?

The possibility of excessive force via choke-hold, seems unrelated to the man's death.

...wtf, is this a joke?

[patrick1]

I have many friends on the NYPD. It is a hard and stressful job. However, your assertions that police should have some sort of power over life and death for undesirable life choices is fascist.  I loathe the frequent use of that term but it fits.

The general juvenile and/or hateful views toward gays and varying degrees of racism held by so many within the small tent are a main reason why I am no longer a Republican.

[patrick1]

^Coroner rules death a homicide.

http://www.cnn.com/2014/08/01/justice/new-york-choke-hold-death/index.html?hpt=hp_t2