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"Peter H. Proctor" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote > What I saw on the videotape was a subject much larger that the > LEO's, who kept trying to get up. Or straighten out and breathe. > While you can argue all you like > about whether the force was excessive, the issue is what killed him. > It was _NOT_ the cops. You mean that the cause of death was not breathing. Sure. What made him unable to breathe? Position and trauma from the point of the tonfa. > What killed him was a cardiac arrythmia due excessive > adrenaline plus left ventricular hypertrophy, the latter likely > secondary to cocaine plus obesity. Yes; and getting stabbed repeatedly in the torso didn't affect his breathing? > All of this sets you up for an > arrythmia. Exacerbated by repeated stabbing in the torso by a guy weighing 200 lbs., using a weapon with a mechanical advantage. Yet; I'd call that a 'set-up'. > Ironically, had he just done what the nice officers told > him, he would have survived, even had they beated the crap out of > him. Geez I've taken down a number of such people without killing them. Just a different attitude, I guess. Chas
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