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<blockquote data-quote="soberups" data-source="post: 1487548" data-attributes="member: 14668"><p>Because he was already out on bail for several other crimes that he had been charged with, and he had a lengthy arrest record (30 times since 1980) for crimes including assault, grand larceny and resisting arrest.</p><p></p><p>I'm not saying he deserved to die. I'm not even saying he was a bad person. He just made a lot of bad choices, and the last one he made (resisting arrest) is the one that caused his death. The police did not <em>intend</em> to kill him, only to take him into custody. His choice to resist, coupled with his obesity and other health problems, is probably what killed him. He had been arrested many times before and he knew the drill; had he simply placed his hands behind his back and cooperated, he would have been taken to jail and probably let out again within a few hours. It is also worth noting that the police who arrested him were being <em>directly supervised</em> at the scene by an African American female patrol sergeant , so this was<em> not</em> a case of a bunch of mean white racist cops beating up on a poor innocent black guy.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="soberups, post: 1487548, member: 14668"] Because he was already out on bail for several other crimes that he had been charged with, and he had a lengthy arrest record (30 times since 1980) for crimes including assault, grand larceny and resisting arrest. I'm not saying he deserved to die. I'm not even saying he was a bad person. He just made a lot of bad choices, and the last one he made (resisting arrest) is the one that caused his death. The police did not [I]intend[/I] to kill him, only to take him into custody. His choice to resist, coupled with his obesity and other health problems, is probably what killed him. He had been arrested many times before and he knew the drill; had he simply placed his hands behind his back and cooperated, he would have been taken to jail and probably let out again within a few hours. It is also worth noting that the police who arrested him were being [I]directly supervised[/I] at the scene by an African American female patrol sergeant , so this was[I] not[/I] a case of a bunch of mean white racist cops beating up on a poor innocent black guy. [/QUOTE]
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