This is a prime example of what's wrong with society. Half of our population forms their opinion based on a meme.
The real difference here is one person, under the influence of drugs, FOUGHT WITH the police. Police are allowed to use enough force to overcome the force used by the person resisting them. These cops failed to recognize positional asphyxiation while dealing with excited delirium.
The other person surrendered, offered no resistance, and did not fight with the 5 cops who had their guns drawn.
Yeah, but you are LITERALLY HITLER, so we don't have to listen to you.
Oh, please give the guy a break. He's all mixed up about the place where his policy authority ends, and the authority of a man begins. If he realized that he was a man, and that policy was just his job - or act - he might learn a little respect for real people.
If you are trying to resist arrest, you are potentially fighting to the death if you are not going to be arrested. The police will attempt to arrest you, but if unable to do so, they are authorized by law to use escalating amounts of force.
There is a reason why you don’t see reports of people getting killed by the police who are surrendering (except when it is fake propaganda).
Also what happened in this case likely had nothing to do with the killer being a police officer. Most likely the killer knew the victim and did not get along with the victim. In other words, this was likely a personal dispute if local reports are to be believed.
They are absolutely NOT authorize by law to arrest you except if you are doing damage. In the Flyod case, he purportedly was sitting on his car, not doing any damage at all when the cops arrived.
Tell us, which has more strength, Constitutional right to travel, or cops duty to harm someone when he is doing no immediate, observable damage?
That's why cops have a very difficult job if they want to be honest and right. And they often fail to obey the higher law - Constitution. That's the reason many people die at the hands of cops. Cops don't understand their limit. They don't have a general signed court order to bring anybody in without cause. The only reason they get away with it is that people don't know the law, either, and don't realize that when they hire an attorney, they are simply dumping their case into the hands of the court.
Criminal acts by cops on a man-to-man count are way more than probably any other person. Why? Because cops do the same bad things that the crooks do, both on and off the clock. And besides, they illegally limit the rights of people in the name of doing their job.
If cops are going to do mob rule and mob justice in the name of doing their job, who needs them? Anybody can do that. Simply give the people guns, and let them have at it... their mob rule. Just like the cops, but we don't have to pay the people. So it's cheaper.
