Has the fact that the beating led to Brooks’ death been officially established? I think newspapers avoid explicitly making that sort of connection on their own, even if it is obvious.
(Also, technically Brooks wasn’t beaten to death because he didn’t die until the next day. The New York Civil Liberties Union is calling this a “fatal beating” instead.)
I mean, if we’re being technical we also can’t be sure that when police shoot someone in the chest that that’s what caused the person to die.
The press does have a tendency to avoid ascribing blame to police if they can avoid it. That doesn’t make it not an egregious case of jumping through hoops to avoid it, and really quite scummy.
A restrained man was beaten for a while, and then died. If I handcuff someone to a table and then me and some friends beat him while he doesn’t resist, including stomping on his crotch, absolutely no one will hesitate to say that I was filmed killing the man.
Surviving for a day before succumbing to his injuries does not disconnect the death from the beating. He was beat to death even if he took a day to die from it. Someone dying a week after a car crash because they were in a coma doesn’t mean they suddenly died of being in a coma.
Has the fact that the beating led to Brooks’ death been officially established? I think newspapers avoid explicitly making that sort of connection on their own, even if it is obvious.
(Also, technically Brooks wasn’t beaten to death because he didn’t die until the next day. The New York Civil Liberties Union is calling this a “fatal beating” instead.)
I mean, if we’re being technical we also can’t be sure that when police shoot someone in the chest that that’s what caused the person to die.
The press does have a tendency to avoid ascribing blame to police if they can avoid it. That doesn’t make it not an egregious case of jumping through hoops to avoid it, and really quite scummy.
A restrained man was beaten for a while, and then died. If I handcuff someone to a table and then me and some friends beat him while he doesn’t resist, including stomping on his crotch, absolutely no one will hesitate to say that I was filmed killing the man.
Surviving for a day before succumbing to his injuries does not disconnect the death from the beating. He was beat to death even if he took a day to die from it. Someone dying a week after a car crash because they were in a coma doesn’t mean they suddenly died of being in a coma.