Re: cincinati cops murder innocent person

On Tue, 2 Dec 2003 09:42:11 -0700, "Chas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:

>"Peter H. Proctor" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote
>>         Autopsy shows ventricular hypertrophy and cocaine metabolites.
>> Plus a couple rather frightened cops.     T'was the coke plus obesity
>> that done it...
>
>It's just poor training all round.
>The guy gassed in thirty seconds anyway- there should have been a little
>tussling around, but that shit with the tonfa was just gratuitous and
>excessive. If one can't handle a little wrasslin' around before you just
>kill someone, perhaps law enforcement isn't a good career choice.
>It may be 'justifiable' under some very generous reading of law, but that
>don't make it right.
.
      What I saw on the videotape was a subject much larger that the
LEO's, who kept trying to get up.     While you can argue all you like
about whether the force was excessive,   the issue is what killed him.
It was _NOT_ the cops.

        What killed him was a cardiac arrythmia due  excessive
adrenaline plus  left ventricular hypertrophy,  the latter  likely
secondary to cocaine plus obesity.  All of this sets you up for an
arrythmia.   Ironically,  had he just done what the nice officers told
him,  he would have survived, even had they beated the crap out of
him.

Dr P