[ladygreek]

A 350lb man high on Cocaine and PCP is not going to be subdued with pepper spray. In fact, in fight they appear to gain strength and lash out indiscriminately. When that much weight and strength is being thrown around it takes much more force to subdue them.

Believe me, I am not trying to defend the po po, especially there in Cinti, but very honestly if I was in their shoes I would call for all the back upI could get to restain a person that size. Plus, do we don't know yet if he would have died if he had not had an enlarged heart?

I guess I believe if that had been a 350lb redneck high on Coke and PCP and behaving the same way, the same amount of force would have been used. So what concerns me most is that we, Black folx, are using the race card more and more, i.e., the police brutality occured because the suspect/victim was Black. Not that it isn't warranted in many cases, but when we use it in lieu of the fact that the behavior by a suspect/victim is inappropriate in the first place, we lessen the credibility of the real cases of racism.