@maxdancona,
maxdancona wrote:
Do you understand that police are professionals? They are trained to do a job.
Part of that job is to provide medical care to anyone who needs it. If someone says "I can't breath" it is the the job of a police officer to check the situation to make sure they are OK. If they are not sure, they should get medical advice.
If every suspect says "I can't breath", then every time they should check and when not certain get medical aid. That is their job.
When someone has a preventable death in police custody, the police haven't done their job.
You are making excuses; the reasons that police don't do their job correctly. They are irrelevant. When the police kill someone in their custody because they didn't do their job correctly... that is a big ******* deal.
I assume you just don't understand that in practice, people lie and cry wolf to try and manipulate situations and, because of that, authorities become immune to what they are saying, even as they are following procedures for how to deal with it.
So what will happen as a result of this "I can't breathe" meme becoming abused is that procedures will be implemented for what to do when a suspect says they can't breathe, and then officers will find ways to ensure that they are following procedural guidelines so that when the person actually does end up suffocating, they will be able to say that they didn't violate any procedures.
What I'm trying to say here is that if suspects would avoid lying and claiming that can't breathe when they really can, then in the event that a suspect really can't breathe, the officer would really respond quickly out of concern for the suspect; whereas if they are just used to following a procedure and not really believing that the suspect is telling the truth, then there is a greater likelihood that the person will suffocate.
When people care and believe in what they're doing, miracles and mercy happen. When people are just going through the motions of following procedures while thinking that the suspect is just repeating a meme/lie to manipulate the situation, the outcome may not be as good. If you have worked in education, you know this is the case with grading where you have students who really put in effort but can't get special consideration because you have to follow grading procedures that avoid special treatment, even though in a traditional teaching situation where you are free to give people extra points for effort, they would get a better grade.