Previous charges of excessive use of force and complaints should have been enough warning for the Department to weed out this cop from their department. And then he goes and gets hired in another jurisdiction. That's not a solution. The Department superiors dropped the ball and should be culpable. Civil suits should be allowed in situations like this because it is ultimately the taxpayers who are on the hook for these misfits being allowed to carry a badge and gun. We need a better national registry for those found to use excessive force. As much, if not more so, that a national gun registry that so many want. Time to get our priorities right. We have the Second Amendment right to own guns. The police do not have an unfettered right to abuse our civil rights and when they do must be held accountable. If a bartender can be held liable for serving too much alcohol to someone who goes out and drives and k**ls someone, then perhaps we need to hold officials accountable who turn a blind eye to complaints lodged against their department officers, especially when there is a recurring pattern of abuse that is evident.

It looks to me like he's just trying to move so he can breathe. He was handcuffed, so even if he were to try to resist, he would have been overtaken by the many cops standing around. And when someone said to get up and get into the car, he answered "I will", which doesn't sound like resisting to me. The man who was kneeling on him was not paying attention at all to what was happening to the man - that cop was looking all around himself and even took out a can of mace at one point. In fact, it seemed to me that the only people who were watching the man at all were the witnesses who were shouting at the cops that the man couldn't breathe and after a few minutes that he was unresponsive. Some of them even said the guy looked like he was dead

That man did not deserve to die. Those cops were wrong, wrong, WRONG. The video does not lie, no matter how badly some people want to defend them. They screwed up big time, and should be held accountable.

No! There was absolutely no need for these officers to act this way. All four officers were summarily fired. They most likely will be prosecuted. To not do so would be a travesty of justice.

Does anyone see the need for B****s in Minneapolis and outside agitators running rampage and l**ting stores because of this? They also need to be prosecuted.

Which side overreacts?

The Black community needs to take a hard serious look at why they react this way. There are millions of B****s in America and most never have any run-ins with law enforcement, going about their day as law-abiding citizens. The race-baiters try to make everything about race, discrimination, bigotry. If you come from this position in the first place, everything you see and experience is tainted by this attitude of confirmation bias. Thanks to the media which perpetuates this attitude so that it helps them sell more advertising and gains adherents through sensationalism, it only serves to further the divide between people.

There will always be a few i***ts who don't know how to live in a civilized world. There are some who are not fit to serve as law enforcement officers and agencies need to do a better job of weeding out the undesirable. Nevertheless, Most do their job day in and day out with the utmost concern for the safety and rights of the people they deal with. This is an aberration from the everyday performance of duties by the vast majority of law enforcement officials. A few bad caps do not justify painting all of them with a broad brush accusation of r****m.

I personally didn't see the video footage, and just read about the unfortunate incident.

This is another Eric Garner situation, and, if the individual had comply with the police order, he'd would be alive today.

NEVER chellenged the police (policy enforcemers) aggressively, because you are opening the door to a aggressive.

Always chellenged police or anyone with Intelligences, if they are in error.

Eric Garner contributed to his own demise, he was involved in a illegal activities, and shouldn't had resisted the arrest.

I don't have all the particular and information on this case to make the same observation.

I'm not taking side with no one, just making a wise observation, on the matter.

Sad, but true to the core, "African Americans", and Hispanics identify themselves with the "N" word, and don't care.

So when police comes into the Communities, they see you as that, and will treat you as that in which you have characterized yourself.