Play one: in on incident of note, my partner and I (with guns etc) had arrested two of three guys for selling narcotics. As I was cuffing two, the third (much larger guy) hit my partner and took off. My partner chased him into the woods, I cuffed my guys to my car’s door handled and followed them. When I caught up, the big guy was beating my partner on the head with my partner’s flashlight. I took him down, and had dropped my radio. As I tried to reach and call for backup, he kept rising with my Kel light across his throat. The third or forth time I informed him of where I’d insert the light to choke him to death, and he stopped resisitng. We took my partner to the hospital and the bad guy, about 6’ 4" and 280 pounds, to jail. In booking him, he calmly asked, “If I’d gotten up again, you have killed me, right?” I equally calmly informed him, “Yes”.
NOTE: two of the three initiallky responded with good sense, complied, and served rather brief time for selling drugs. The third larger, and dumber guy, resisted, attacked a police officer, and was sentenced to 20 years in prison, as some of my partners injuries could potentially have proven fatal, as in the case of Mr. Garner’s pre-existing physical problems, NOT caused by the contact with police. (aggravated, perhaps, but his death was NOT “caused” by police and he did NOT stop breathing, merely had difficulty, and he did NOT get choked, nor did he, as still being reported, die on the street.)
Play one: in on incident of note, my partner and I (with guns etc) had arrested two of three guys for selling narcotics. As I was cuffing two, the third (much larger guy) hit my partner and took off. My partner chased him into the woods, I cuffed my guys to my car’s door handled and followed them. When I caught up, the big guy was beating my partner on the head with my partner’s flashlight. I took him down, and had dropped my radio. As I tried to reach and call for backup, he kept rising with my Kel light across his throat. The third or forth time I informed him of where I’d insert the light to choke him to death, and he stopped resisitng. We took my partner to the hospital and the bad guy, about 6’ 4" and 280 pounds, to jail. In booking him, he calmly asked, “If I’d gotten up again, you have killed me, right?” I equally calmly informed him, “Yes”.
NOTE: two of the three initiallky responded with good sense, complied, and served rather brief time for selling drugs. The third larger, and dumber guy, resisted, attacked a police officer, and was sentenced to 20 years in prison, as some of my partners injuries could potentially have proven fatal, as in the case of Mr. Garner’s pre-existing physical problems, NOT caused by the contact with police. (aggravated, perhaps, but his death was NOT “caused” by police and he did NOT stop breathing, merely had difficulty, and he did NOT get choked, nor did he, as still being reported, die on the street.)