With respect, because I love your work flashharry, he was arrested 9 times. Four for minor drug possession, one time for failure to identify, one aggravated robbery which did not include assault, one trespass, one theft of between $50 and $500, one theft from person.
While I appreciate that he was not a person to be held up as a bastion of society, or somebody worthy of a statue, he was a human being. He could not rise up from poverty and a dysfunctional upbringing, limited education and opportunities and a damaged culture, still he did not deserve to be crushed in the gutter by a police officer's knee to the neck held for a prolonged period. A police officer who was no doubt expressing his contempt for such a person from such a background.
The cops have a tough job, but there are no excuses for the manor of his death. You might like to voluntarily take this one down, whatever this guy did he paid for it with his life.
