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The New York Choke Hold Case
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The New York Choke Hold Case
December 3, 2014 at 8:36 pm
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RE: The New York Choke Hold Case
December 3, 2014 at 8:38 pm

Playing Cluedo with my mum while I was at Uni:

"You did WHAT?  With WHO?  WHERE???"
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RE: The New York Choke Hold Case
December 3, 2014 at 8:39 pm
Not if you're wearing blue, Woodie. What the hell do you think the problem is here? You go try it and see what happens to your ass.
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RE: The New York Choke Hold Case
December 3, 2014 at 8:40 pm
We'll just file that under yet another case where a cop kills someone, and isn't punished for it.
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RE: The New York Choke Hold Case
December 3, 2014 at 8:42 pm
So, this is a homicide- an unlawful killing of one person by another. If the cop isn't charged, who committed the homicide? Did the man just spontaneously murdered?
I can't remember where this verse is from, I think it got removed from canon:

"I don't hang around with mostly men because I'm gay. It's because men are better than women. Better trained, better equipped...better. Just better! I'm not gay."

For context, this is the previous verse:

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RE: The New York Choke Hold Case
December 3, 2014 at 8:43 pm (This post was last modified: December 3, 2014 at 8:44 pm by Jackalope.)
Don't know, but NYPD forbids the use of choke holds for very good reason. I don't know much about the background of this story, but on the surface it sounds like the suspect wasn't resisting (any more than anyone deprived of oxygen would). I'll note that it appears pretty hard to get an indictment of a cop for an on-duty incident - even when department policy is violated and someone dies as a result.
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RE: The New York Choke Hold Case
December 3, 2014 at 8:44 pm
It seems they will now have to rule it a "suicide."
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RE: The New York Choke Hold Case
December 3, 2014 at 8:46 pm
(December 3, 2014 at 8:42 pm)Exian Wrote: So, this is a homicide- an unlawful killing of one person by another. If the cop isn't charged, who committed the homicide? Did the man just spontaneously murdered?

Homicide doesn't imply unlawful. Justified self-defense deaths are also ruled homicide. It's not up to the coroner to determine whether the law was violated, only the manner of death.
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RE: The New York Choke Hold Case
December 3, 2014 at 8:48 pm
That does flow better than "spontaneously murdered". It'll make them sound less silly.

There's just so much backwardness with this. I can hear the cop cheering "You heard the man. I wasn't found guilty of suiciding that guy."
I can't remember where this verse is from, I think it got removed from canon:

"I don't hang around with mostly men because I'm gay. It's because men are better than women. Better trained, better equipped...better. Just better! I'm not gay."

For context, this is the previous verse:

"Hi Jesus" -robvalue
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RE: The New York Choke Hold Case
December 3, 2014 at 8:51 pm
I don't understand the jury's decision. Unlike the Ferguson case, this was a really easy indictment, IMO...

Was the jury instructed to let it go to the federal level, maybe?
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