It's not too late to downgrade to manslaughter. The problem is that after the bodycam footage and the training manual showing when and how to use neck restraints came out there just wasn't a case anymore. The officer was calm and professional and he did everything he could to keep the situation from escalating. You can argue that neck restraints are dangerous and have no place in law enforcement but it was clearly in the manual that it was acceptable under those circumstances. Rewrite the manual if you want but it's not the officers fault.
The real problem is that all this evidence would have been available after the first few days of investigation. Why was Burn, Loot, Murder allowed to run rampant with this for so long?
They'll get him on manslaughter. I get it's in the manual, but to MAINTAIN pressure on the neck on a limp man is really fucked up. The guys knew, and didn't like, each other. No one is that stupid to keep applying pressure to a limp man.
It's not too late to downgrade to manslaughter. The problem is that after the bodycam footage and the training manual showing when and how to use neck restraints came out there just wasn't a case anymore. The officer was calm and professional and he did everything he could to keep the situation from escalating. You can argue that neck restraints are dangerous and have no place in law enforcement but it was clearly in the manual that it was acceptable under those circumstances. Rewrite the manual if you want but it's not the officers fault.
The real problem is that all this evidence would have been available after the first few days of investigation. Why was Burn, Loot, Murder allowed to run rampant with this for so long?
They'll get him on manslaughter. I get it's in the manual, but to MAINTAIN pressure on the neck on a limp man is really fucked up. The guys knew, and didn't like, each other. No one is that stupid to keep applying pressure to a limp man.