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uppityperson

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15. Make sure you comply before they say anything also, like Tamir Rice needed to do.

Reply to H. Cromwell (Reply #8)

Wed Dec 3, 2014, 11:05 PM

Dec 2014

He needed to submit and obey instructions he could not hear and had no time to comply with.

If only he'd done what they told him before they told him, he might still be alive.

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As to the choke hold death of Garner, I'm obese and sometimes when I'm lying down [View all] applegrove Dec 2014 OP

This would be an excellent point to raise during a trial. NYC_SKP Dec 2014 #1

Oh I don't know what the grand jury heard. I'm upset and suprised too. I just think applegrove Dec 2014 #2

Very strange, indeed! NYC_SKP Dec 2014 #3

The police didn't need to put that "into the mix" JeffHead Dec 2014 #4

Especially if someone has a big belly. When you are lying flat on your back lots of your belly applegrove Dec 2014 #5

I'm not denying the physics involved.. JeffHead Dec 2014 #7

Yep and laundry_queen Dec 2014 #6

In your case H. Cromwell Dec 2014 #8

It is also a bad idea for a cop to not follow police procedures. Skidmore Dec 2014 #10

Bullshit. alarimer Dec 2014 #13

Make sure you comply before they say anything also, like Tamir Rice needed to do. uppityperson Dec 2014 #15

troll go home abelenkpe Dec 2014 #16

Your concern is noted. vanlassie Dec 2014 #19

He wasn't resisting arrest. He was being murdered. nt Lex Dec 2014 #20

Fuck that and get lost. morningfog Dec 2014 #21

Do you have a CPAP? Brickbat Dec 2014 #9

Re: "I just hope the police put the fact that obese people have trouble breathing" 951-Riverside Dec 2014 #11

That fellow was not resisting at all & there was a dogpile of cops on him n/t UTUSN Dec 2014 #12

Even when I was only somewhat overweight my apnea made me wake up gasping for breath sometimes Recursion Dec 2014 #14

The chokehold was BANNED no matter how fat the target, but you're right pnwmom Dec 2014 #17

When someone you are choking gasps out "I can't breathe!" Lex Dec 2014 #18

I think he was on his stomach with them pressing his head twisted to the side in the ground. herding cats Dec 2014 #22

I've got other disabilities that would make it difficult for me to lie down LeftInTX Dec 2014 #23