Not all police are evil. Clearly looking back at that we can see it was terribly excessive use of force, but put yourself in their place at the time. There dealing with a person who is very clearly not co-operating. It was even posted earlier that his meds were making him act out in that manner, now it doesn't matter how many people are pleading with the officers that it was just his meds, all they know is they have a invidual who is acting in this way and he got into a scuffle with aother officer and injured him. I HIGHLY doubt that they were intending to kill him, expecially with the camera running. It's a pretty far fetched story to say that 10-20 individual officers were attempting to kill him, by either act of the tazer or the inaction to stop the tazering. More likely the emotions of the moment coupled with the intensity and speed of the situation caused the ones in control of the tazers to make a few bad decisions. Does that make them heartless murders? No. Did they make terrible decisions regarding their use of force? Absolutely. But at the end of the day it's so easy for everyone here to play computer chair judge and label the ones who made the bad decisions "murders", not one of us was there and really had a idea of everything that was going on. I'm sure most if not all of them feel horrible that the man died.




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