Strictly from a training perspective though, there is a whole lot wrong the officers did.
There’s not a single thing right.
At the most basic level, it is, at absolute best criminally negligent.
There’s very little training that comes into this case in my opinion. It wasn’t a taught training technique exhibited badly, and I don’t think anyone could argue a trained police officer anywhere on earth wouldn’t know that applying crushing force on someone’s neck in that position is a monumentally poor idea. That leaves very little room other than to call it what it is - murder/manslaughter.
Admittedly I’ve only watched a short part of the video, I found it hugely upsetting, but what I saw, and what I have read and seen in other angles is someone who wanted to be seen by everyone else to have put that man down, a kind of I’m the big man, I’m in control to the absolute max and most horrible degree.
His specific intent as far as how much harm he thought he was causing and how race played into it is impossible for me to gauge.
However a police officer simply has to do a million times better than that. It’s a position of such responsibly and such wanton and mindless disregard for that poor man is beyond the pale.
I know you’re not supporting them at all and just answering questions honestly which I appreciate.
Without ,admittedly, any expertise in the American Policing situation, it just seems so patently apparent that there is a massive endemic, cultural issue with regards use of force and racism - both seperately and all too often in combination.
Do you find that disheartening? I’m sure there are a great many very competent, empathetic and good police officers in America but it does seem there’s a real reluctance to call it as it is and I wonder how much that cements the issues.
