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aGameOfThrones
05-27-2013, 09:13 PM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UroBoZiLWs0



SACRAMENTO (CBS13) — Sacramento Police have confirmed the name of the man who died in police custody shortly after a violent struggle with officers, but many questions remain unanswered.

We showed the footage of John Toretti’s arrest to former Sacramento County Sheriff John McGuiness, who says it’s too early to blame the officers for his death.

“That’s the tough part of what they are called in to do,” he said.

The video shows an officer laying on top of Toretti as a female officer strikes the suspect with a baton. Minutes before the struggle, officers say Toretti had barricaded himself within a Metro PCS store on the 8300 block of Folsom Boulevard. From there, a violent fight broke out, spilling to the sidewalk where the video was shot.

McGuiness said he believes force was the only way to bring the suspect into custody after he ignored commands from the officers.

“My strong belief is that at any time had he complied with what they were telling him to do, the use of force would have stopped,” he said.

Sacramento Police say officers used pepper spray on the 42-year-old with no effect before the officer pulled out her baton.

“The baton blows don’t go on forever,” McGuiness said. “It’s not as though she’s enraged and can’t control herself.”

McGuiness says someone who violently resists arrests is rate. he says not only were police trying to stop the man from hurting others, they were also protecting their own weapons during that struggle.

“Officers die with their own weapons being used against them, that’s not a rare occurrence,” he said, “so they have an obligation to keep that weapon under control.

“Should he break free and engage in the same or similar conduct that he had just displayed, the outcome could be very, very bad for other officers or members of the public.”

http://sacramento.cbslocal.com/2013/05/27/man-who-died-in-sacramento-police-custody-identified/


Reference title thread: http://www.ronpaulforums.com/showthread.php?415596-Remember-David-Sal-Silva-beaten-to-death-by-cops

better-dead-than-fed
05-27-2013, 09:29 PM
http://www.webmd.com/heart-disease/default.htm

Anti Federalist
05-27-2013, 09:37 PM
“My strong belief is that at any time had he complied with what they were telling him to do, the use of force would have stopped,” he said

Stop resisting, thump...stop resisting, thump...

surf
05-27-2013, 10:31 PM
“Officers die with their own weapons being used against them, that’s not a rare occurrence,” he said, “so they have an obligation to keep that weapon under control.

c'mon dude. i'm not going to come out and call this McGuiness character a flat out liar w/o some stats to prove it. i'll just refer to him as a cop (make your own inference here)