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"Joseph L. Giacalone, a retired New York Police Department detective sergeant who trains law enforcement, said, "You would never put a detainee struggling to breathe face down because that never promotes free breathing."...

Further -- as to the Taser allegation: "Surveillance video confirms at least some of that account; it shows three officers moving toward the neighbor, standing between him and the van. Soon, the neighbor is gone from the camera's view."...

I must say -- I was amazed at just how many Police surveillance cameras there are in that section of Baltimore where FG was arrested and driven though town: http://chamspage.blogspot.com/2012/04/locations-of-baltimore-police.html Video's released by the BPD...

Yes. Allegedly. "The Guardian has documented a series of erratic and violent episodes involving Rice, where it is alleged he engaged in a “pattern of intimidation and violence” against a former romantic partner and her new husband between 2012 and 2013. Rice is also alleged to...

More... "The Baltimore police lieutenant charged with manslaughter over the death of Freddie Gray threatened to use his Taser on an eyewitness who filmed part of the crucial first stop made by a police van carrying the 25-year-old after he was arrested, according an investigation by the...

1. Yes, they have seatbelts. 2. It is often said "ignorance of the law is no excuse..." This policy would seem likewise, to apply.

What in the hell?

By most accounts, he just had a few scratches...in and out of the ER in a jiffy. But I will tell you the part of this that has "me* smiling slightly, or rather I should say -- what I find juicy in all this -- and why I have been drawn back to the Zimmerman debate -- is this: The Irony...

Ummm... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rc2wDyMbh0o Not quite. As for having two guns in the car? Pffhhht. Myriad of reasons.

Remember this little attention-seeking gem of his "celebrity boxing challenge" from last year? "Who wants the first shot? George Zimmerman has announced he's putting up his dukes for a celebrity boxing match — one that still needs an opponent. "It was my idea," the heavyweight...

Why do you say that?

The incident with Zimmerman was in February 2012. Yes, he was taken into custody and questioned -- he killed a teenager. He wasn't arrested until six weeks later.

Of course he was. Both GZ and MA were at the police station yesterday afternoon for questioning. MA was released without arrest. He's claiming Self Defense.

How can you possibly say this without being there? It takes a second to press a button to raise a car window. It could even have been partially down. We just don't know.

He wasn't arrested for quite a few weeks after he killed Trayvon. That's why it made such big news. People couldn't believe a person could shoot and kill a teenager and not get arrested.