Well, I'll go on record that I remain very suspicious as to what happened, and I'm not at all ready to blame the officers until I hear a whole lot more about the details of the injuries, and mechanism of injury.
It's almost painfully obvious, IMO, that the details of his medical care, and the details of his injuries are being very conscientiously and aggressively withheld from the public. Just vague references to "severed" spinal cord, and "fractured vertebrae", and "crushed" larynx-- which are certainly sobering, but do not at all tell what happened-- especially in light of his hospitalization and surgery several days before he died. There is a LOT that happened in that week in the hospital that we don't know about.
Two autopsies were done, and miraculously, not s SINGLE detail of either has come out-- not even from the family's own private autopsy. My hinky meter is pegged full on. Something in the medical records and/ or autopsy is highly inflammatory or controversial, IMO, or SOMETHING more detailed would be coming out. CNN would exhaustively have diagrams and experts educating the public about the nature of the injuries, etc. and how the injuries "must have" occurred.
Something very odd is going on, IMO. I get that the final tox won't be back for a little while (and what they're waiting on is ADVANCED tox-- like eye fluids, advanced pathology slices of brain, spinal cord, etc). But there is a tremendous amount of information that is known NOW that everyone is choosing to suppress.
And my instinct says that if that information in any way would show the LEOs in a more negative light, or a more responsible light, that info would be shouted from the rooftops, in light of the riots. The officers are already assumed completely responsible for excessive force, so why in the world withhold information from the public to reinforce that? Everyone is far too content, IMO, to allow the vague information to suffice as evidence that the officers abused this man to death.
Also, I note that the officers have not been fired, nor arrested, at this point in time.
It's my growing suspicion that there is something objective in his medical records, or autopsy results, that is not congruent with the "message" of the riots and protestors, and there is fear that releasing that objective information may lead to fresh riots. JMO.
I can't hold the officers responsible for anything, until I know a whole lot more specific information about his injuries, and the WHOLE situation leading up to the arrest.
