Reply #189: Please stop coddling the bad guys!

[SmokeyBlues]

Anyway, 5'6" 400 pounds or 6'3" 275 pounds or 5'10" 180 pounds and in plain clothes responding to a call, it's all the same for some folks. And don't forget the demon drugs that had him acting peculiar.

One question: at 5'6" 400 pounds and presumably not in the best of shape as shown in the video, how far do you think the deceased could have gotten by the time sufficient backup arrived? Couple of miles you think? Wasn't he lying face down in a parking lot on conscious just a few minutes before the police arrived?

Word is out that he was a speedy 5'6" 400 pounds. Lithe and agile. Able to float on his toes like Muhammad Ali.

And are we are to believe the two officers could not have accessed the threat level and then called for additional backup? Is it not possible that more officers on the scene could have greatly reduced the need for excessive force?

Oh yeah. I forgot. The deceased was a big man: 5'6" 400 pounds of fighting machine and largely incoherent. If only he had stayed down there would have been no need for the beating to continue. Perhaps I missed something, but I don't recall seeing the decease rising fully to his feet after he went down to the ground.

As for taking a punch at the officers, I've seen more aggressive and hostile 'participants' on the show Cops. Luckily, they are still alive.

I just don't see where the threat was to justify the use of excessive force.