I just watched this video.

This stupid ------------ was incapable of acting like a civilized human being---probably high AF. He created his own drama, for sure.

It's not really the cop's (or society's) problem that he died.

Unfortunate that he'd procreated---although one wonders how much influence he'd actually had in his kids' lives.

Hopefully not much.

What is supposed to be a safe way to incapacitate a suspect turns out not to be so safe

Nothing is "safe" when you're jacked up on coke or Fentanyl and behave in a manner that creates undue stress on yourself when you interact with the world.

No matter the reason for his attempted arrest, this sort of throws a new light on tasing. What is supposed to be a safe way to incapacitate a suspect turns out not to be so safe. Yet it is spread through out law enforcement in this country.

But responsibility does the citizenry share to ensure that when we interact with underpaid public servants whose job it is to enforce the law that we do so appropriately?

The Dirty Little Secret in America is that we don't have a police brutality problem.

We have a respect problem.

And that lack of respect tends to manifest itself most dramatically in black males between the ages of 15 and 25.

We can talk all day about the root causes as to why that is (the decline of the black nuclear family since the implementation of the Great Society and the fact that most black kids grow up in fatherless households) or we can simply be measured and realistic in our responses to events like this when they're over-hyped by the media simply to enrage insulated white liberals.

In the meantime, I'm a big fan of living in a civilized society for the duration that we have one left.

No need to re-tool it to appeal to the behavior of the lowest common denominator among us.