Thread: Suspect puts drugs in his mouth; cop breaks his neck

Originally Posted by djwolford

I think he acted appropriately, not because the guy was a meth junkie, but because he ate his drugs and resisted arrest. You never know what a guy like that is going to do. He could have just as easily had a razor blade in his hand and tried to cut the cops throat.

Err, I'm pretty sure cops are trained that choking a guy is not an appropriate take-down measure when a suspect is resisting arrest...

Originally Posted by djwolford

I love how these stories always make the cop out to be the bad guy, and the tweaker is always the fine upstanding citizen who did nothing at all to deserve the treatment that he got, when it seems to me that nine times out of ten the officer acted responsibly to neutralize a possible threat. The guy was obviously acting odd from the very get-go.

No, the tweaker is obviously a dangerous guy that should be taken off the street, but there's a reason why police officers are trained in how to subdue potentially dangerous suspects so as to avoid accidental deaths like this. Again, I don't think that grabbing someone's neck and choking them is a part of this training.

It's clear that the one and only reason why he grabbed his throat was not to subdue him, as you seem to be claiming, but to try to get him to spit out what he put in his mouth.

Also, dj, aren't you a tweaker too?