Architect In Diabetic Shock Beaten By Officers, Pepper Sprayed, and Repeatedly Tasered Before Dying

[AnotherMcIntosh]

62. The officers' account would have more credibility if they would release their videos.

The news report that you referred to also includes portions of interviews with his neighbors who liked and respected him, and said that he was a good person.

"sent 3 cops to the hospital"? Some people know that police officers are uninhibited about exaggerating both the wrongdoing of those who they assault and their own injuries. It is common for police officers to assault people and then claim that the assaulted victims were "resisting arrest" even when there was no lawful basis for such arrests. It is also common for police officers to claim that they were injured.

I am willing to consider that there "might be some truth to the officers' account," but I am also willing to consider the other circumstances of the case. Who would expect an innocent person going into a diabetic shock, and who has been pepper sprayed, to respond with an obsenity (which may have offended the officers' sensibilities) and to flail out with his hands? At some point, their response went over the line. They didn't need to Tase and beat him to death.