(June 17, 2020 at 5:52 pm)LadyForCamus Wrote:(June 17, 2020 at 5:33 pm)Brian37 Wrote: ^^^^^^^^^ BINGO!
Far too much of police training nationwide is to assume the worst and dominate first.
I will tell you though, any good defense lawyer will try to argue, "If he was willing to grab at my weapon, and assault me, who is to say if he got away he wouldn't take someone hostage or harm someone else?"
Doesn't wash with me regardless, but that is what his lawyer might argue. If I were a prosecutor I'd point out the 47 minutes where they were getting along before the attempted arrest. I'd also point out other cases where people resisted and still made it to jail.
And the rebuttal to that defense would be that the officers were the ones who reached for the taser first, and maybe Brooks simply didn’t want to be tased. I see no reason or evidence to think that he wanted to do malicious harm to anyone.
I agree with you. But the taser was pulled out after started to resist. Resisting isn't always charged as a felony, but he did jerk away when the officer attempted to put the cuffs on him.The taser was pulled out after he tried to pull away from being handcuffed. But not even that was worth a death sentence.
I think maybe Brown was disappointed that after 47 minutes of being polite to them, they still tried to arrest him. Believe me I am in no way siding with the cops. Seen far too many news clips over the years of blacks not resisting and still ending up dead. Shit, Floyd was handcuffed with 4 guys on his back and one with a knee on his neck. I feel for Brown. Blacks are unfortunately in a position with law that they are damned if they do, and damned if they dont.
