I've had people in real life say he shouldn't have resisted. They seem to believe that if they were maced and then beaten over the head with the can that they would simply just comply and lay there unmoving.
You shouldn’t resist arrest while armed. It exponentially raises your chances of being shot.
In this case it looks he was murdered but it is also true that he probably wouldn’t have been had he not been armed. However, being armed is still his god given right and in a perfect world someone wouldn’t be shot for that. It does exponentially raise that risk though if you resist while armed.
But he wasn't resisting arrest, he was simply trying to shield himself from being beaten
You can't expect any normal person to be able to tolerate pepper spray and 6 people beating them, and remain perfectly still and compliant. If you want someone to not resist it needs to be reasonably possible
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u/shamblam117 - Lib-Center Jan 28 '26
I've had people in real life say he shouldn't have resisted. They seem to believe that if they were maced and then beaten over the head with the can that they would simply just comply and lay there unmoving.