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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm sad by some of the posters here where in 2023 there is no personal responsibility or accountability for any personal actions and this is now acceptable to most of society. This man, a teacher who teaches kids, was high on cocaine, weed, who knows what else, causing car accidents in the middle of the road yet he will somehow be named a hero.[/quote]
Does he deserve to die for that, you psychopath?[/quote]
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I say frequently that personal responsibility has gone the way of the dodo. 
He may not have DESERVED to die, but his death is not shocking considering his actions.

If some idiot runs out in front of a speeding train because he thinks he can beat it, and he dies, did he deserve to die?  Nope. But, his death is not at all shocking and there is plenty he could have done to prevent it. [/quote]

False equivalence

Police are trained to respond to such threats or lack thereof.

Speeding trains are not.

The level of force was way disproportionate to the threat he posed six armed officers. [/quote]

I’m sure they are trained to tase people who are a danger to themselves or others. Which they did. [/quote]
 Yeah right - six of them on one terrified unarmed man in the ground pleading for his life and not resisting arrest.

Don’t let evidence or reality get in the way of your dogma …[/quote]

He was resisting. It took multiple officers to hold him down. The officer with the taser warned him at least four times that he was going to taser him if he didn't stop resisting. Clearly he was terrified and irrational, not malevolent, but what would have been a better course of action? Let him just run off? Let him keep fighting back? If he had stopped resisting he wouldn't have been tased. If he had sat down on the sidewalk when asked and not run out into the street there would not have been a physical struggle.  [/quote]

A problem with the "stop resisting" position...is the position. In most video I've seen, the "resisting" individual is being ordered to do something at the same time some portion of their body is being forced into an unnatural position. You'd move (resist) too, if your arm/hand/head was forcibly held at an unnatural and painful angle.[/quote]

Nobody believes that nonsense. Cops aren't UFC fighters. Comply with verbal commands or get tazed.[/quote]

+1[/quote]

Speak for yourselves and not everyone.

Many of us do not think the level of force was justified and that racism likely did play an unconscious role in the way his mental illness was handled.

The police need more training to handle people with mental illness better. [/quote]

Sorry should say level of force was NOT justified ..[/quote]

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