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    8 months ago

    At one point the officer jokes: “I’ve always wanted to be in a bar fight. I don’t know if this counts.”

    A few things to unpack, right there

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    8 months ago

    But what if one time they are lying about not being able to breathe and we let them up for a second and then it turns out they really could breathe but just lied… what about the horrible ramifications of that… we wouldn’t want them to have had a single moment of slight relief if it turns out they were just lying right?

    Probably better to just find out when they either die or not… who would be able to forgive us if we gave them a slight break and took their word for it that they were about to die.

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      8 months ago

      he suffocated under his own body weight because he wasn’t fit enough to be laid on his stomach

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      8 months ago

      They restricted a man’s body until he died. Pretty simple case of murder.

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      8 months ago

      Looks to me like another extrajudicial murder by cops. More similar than different.

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      8 months ago

      the whole ethical discussion aside, is it even possible for someone to choke under their own body weight, or die if they lay on their stomach, if they aren’t terminally obese or something like that?

      legitimately curious, as people are throwing this around like it was normal… is this an American thing?

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        8 months ago

        Yes. Fortunately, the human body has a lot of reflexive defenses against it, so the only way it could happen is if you were forced into the situation against all struggles.