dunes runner wrote:
Flagpole Willy wrote:Well, of course I have kids - I've said that many times here. Try to take the head off of a police officer and you deserve what's coming to you. How can you not find fault with what he did?
So it's a license to not only beat the black man but to kill him.
I don't agree with anything at all about the guy, or his life style.
However, he did NOT deserve to be killed.
Where you and I disagree is that you, or anyone, as ruler of someone else has the right to do anything you want to them.
You do NOT.
It was wrong of them to beat and kill that man.
I hope they suffer the consequences and that it doesn't happen again.
No, where you and I differ is that you feel a 350+ pound man can violently attack someone and then expect there to be no defense. He died, but the force they put on him was not enough to kill a normally fit person. He had a bum ticker due to his own poisioning of his body, and the PCP allowed him to go harder than his body would normally have allowed him to. I never said a police officer had the right to kill someone just because they were resisting arrest - if they had immediately pulled their guns out and shot the guy, I would have had trouble with that. As it was, they hit him several times with nightsticks - big deal. Again, that's not what killed him - the struggle did, not the beating; his exertion did, not the beating.
I too hope it doesn't happen again, but if these police officers are punished in any way, it will be a crime.