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.
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.