Man Accidentally Killed by Police Choke Hold in Staten Island

[ingemann]

The moment you forced a fat guy down, his arms on his bag and he warn he can't breathe, the cops should have reacted. This is not the first time a fat man have died that way. The question is whether this is a result of lack of training or the cops ignoring their training. In the former case the state should be held responsable, in the latter case the cops should be held primary responsable (while the state should still pay reparations to the man's family).

[ingemann]

I sympathize with the man who died in custody. Police brutality is not something we can casually gloss over, but I'm not sure how we can make the police responsible for preserving the life of a man who was effectively committing suicide via gluttony.

If the suspect lacks the instinct of self-preservation, it seems a bit absurd to make law enforcement responsible for keeping him alive.

I guess the day someone kill you, we will say that it was a case of suicide via being an a**hole. This guy likely had at least +15-20 year life expectancy ahead of him, to suggest that the enforcer of the state, have no responsibility for looking at a guy they arrest and think "we better be careful we don't kill him", is blindblowing. What you suggest are that the police should have a right to kill anybody they feel like killing.