The question is do you fully support what happened in that video? What psychiatric facility could you possibly work at where you couldn't be charged with assault if you crossed the line or went beyond procedures? Do you have no rules where you work? No one is saying cops can't use force, we are saying using force when not neccecary or using way more then the situation calls for.

What video? I've seen no compelling evidence of excessive force. 

ow wow.. that other video after they got him on the ground and just lays there for 7 minutes while no cop is helping him, giving him cpr or anything till the ambulance arrives .. If you can't see there is something wrong with his health wtf is your job... he probably died right there..

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vT66U_Ftdng

Yes, there are also other factors that come into play other than the cultural difference of respect shown towards police officers. There's far more diversity and economic distance can lead to this (on top of having more than 15x the population).

In the top part of your comment, you're wrong. It was a chokehold. You wouldn't say, multiple times "I can't breathe" if your blood, not oxygen, was being cut off. And the death was ruled a homicide by neck compressions, as jlmurph pointed out.

And homicide isn't as simple as "death by another person". It is a legal term. Otherwise a "manslaughter" charge and a "homicide" charge would be the same thing. But obviously there is a difference. You could say that the officer committed involuntary manslaughter, which means "unintentional homicide by criminially negligent or reckless conduct"...but this death was ruled a straight up homicide/murder, something that's not limited to "malicious intent" (meaning, intent to kill isn't needed, so that's something that is not required). Many states define it as "intentionally inflicting bodily harm that subsequently results in the victim's death". What intent do you think the officer had when he came from behind and put him in a chokehold after they attempted to arrest him? Give him a massage? No, he meant to weaken him (aka harm him) in order to make subduing him easier. And that intentional harm caused his death. Example: if I punch you in the arm, I don't intend to kill you. But if that punch ruptures an artery and you die from internal bleeding, I've commited a murder.

This type of ignorance is why no progress will be made. White males (such as myself) still cannot garner consensus that race, indeed, is an underlying theme and variable to these incidents. Most, if not all, people worth having dialogue with are not saying it the THE cause but continueing to refuse the acknowledgement that it is a variables is why this cycle will continue.

The fact that 60 years ago there was segregation in this very country and people still fly confederate flags and talk about seceding is the evidence that there are still racial divides in this country.

Again, it is not a zero sum game. The problem is on both sides. People want to make this a solely white cop issue, these are generally the black community or liberal/democrats. The other side wants to pretend racism is over. the problem is the side that wants to pretend like there is "no evidence" for underlying racial tones in these cases are the white males who have all of the power. The problem is the people with no power IE: the non white male side do not have teh luxery of being thoughtful or careful in their outcries. Voting rights are slipping away because white males, drenched with subconscious guilt cannot wait to prove emphatically that "racism does not exist" The way to prove that is to remove laws that remind them of the guilt, to pretend it is not necesary so they can have some false peace with this countries history. This is why the people claiming "no evidence" of race are so quick to create this zero sum game because the acknowledgement that race is a factor means we have to deal with it instead of pretending racism is gone which is the goal of white men in america.

He didn't do anything wrong, the officer did it in self-defense he had asked the man to go the sidewalk, the man resisted and rushed for the cops gun, and the cop put him in the hold to get him to the floor. The most you could indict the cop for is excessive force.

yeah, they "accidentaly" ganged up over the unnarmed man and kept on top of him while he said he couldnt breathe. total murder and all officers involved should be hanged do death.

i could be wrong but arent you not soppossed to give people CPR if they are still breathing?

try breathing with 4 pathetic people on top of you. it was a murder by all 4/5 officers.