CV and mad panic behaviour

[Mav]

I agree the suspension doesn't mean guilt. But the policeman who slam-tackled that guy would need to have a pretty good reason for doing that if he's to avoid being found guilty. If the concern was that he was armed or in other ways dangerous to apprehend in a less violent fashion, maybe this is one of those situations in which a taser may have been less injurious.

I am tickled the tackle evoked much pearl-clutching from right-wingers though. They're quite happy to see a bit of retribution or "attitude adjustment" inflicted on leftwing protesters, e.g. BLM protesters.  But when it's one of their own "freedom fighters", the strongarm tactics they love to see police use are suddenly inhumane. As always, this is best exemplified by Trump and his disciples. Trump even encouraged the police to slam the heads of suspects into police cars as they were loading them in, telling the police they were being too nice to them. And the Trumpists were incensed that the police opposed their insurrection (although in truth they were much less muscular than they would have been if it had been a mob of leftwing protesters trying to storm the Capitol). One insurrectionist shot and killed by a Capitol police officer as she was trying to break through into the Capitol building was so much worse than the series of shootings of blacks by police.