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Originally Posted by nomadking
 Nothing to do with any fictitious jury contamination. Anything other than a full on guilty verdict is just not going to be allowed.
The "fascist" forces have well and truly been unleashed. All downhill from now on. |
The issue is though, no matter what he did before being restrained, the way he was restrained was unacceptable.
Now, the he acted can be brought forward as mitigation into the way the cops handled it but they are guilty of accidental death, and the fact that they ignored his pleas that he couldn't breath the prosecution may even ask for the accidental part be removed.
Even without the sideshow, if the facts were brought before any jury, I would expect them to be found guilty of whatever the US version of accidental death is.