Schleicher: Is it your opinion, to a degree of professional certainty, that the force you've identified as applied by the defendant...was a objectively reasonable or not objectively reasonable?
Stiger: It was not objectively reasonable.
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Schleicher: In the context the words of the defendant vs the actions telling someone to relax when you're sitting on top of them. Is that an effective de escalation techniques in your opinion?
Stiger: Not necessarily.
Stiger: His breath was getting slower, his tone of voice were getting lower, his movements were starting to cease...As an officer on scene you have a responsibility to realize that okay, something is not right...you have responsibility to take some type of action.
Stiger:...you can have a situation where...it looks horrible to the common eye, but based on the state law, it, it's lawful.
Schleicher: But if it's not objectively reasonable and it's not lawful, then it's just awful.
Stiger: Correct.
Schleicher: Nothing further.
Nelson following up with Stiger.
N: You were not personally there the day of the incident. S: Correct.
N: And you would not have known how people were feeling.
S: Correct.