What Taser,What Pepper Spray?

A knock-down, drag-out fight by one individual vs LAPD is not
supposed to last for fifteen minutes. With all the non-lethal
weapons at their disposal the fight shouldn't have lasted fifteen
seconds. It did and now a man is dead. Could this have been
avoided? Read the article below and let me know what you think.





The captain at the Los Angeles police division where a 31-year-old man died in custody over the weekend said Wednesday that the dead man and officers engaged in a "knock-down, drag-out fight." "This was not pretty," said Capt. William Fierro. "However, it was necessary."

The altercation between officers and Mauricio Cornejo lasted more than 15 minutes, as police chased, wrestled with and eventually corralled the man outside the Ramona Gardens housing project in Boyle Heights. Fierro said that a preliminary coroner's report found that Mauricio Cornejo had not suffered any blunt-force trauma to the head, although his body had "superficial wounds."

The cause of death was still pending, he said. Police held a news conference after days of intensifying questions about Cornejo's death, which occurred about 45 minutes after officers pulled him over for a broken taillight at Ramona Gardens. It came after internal investigators briefed Police Chief William J. Bratton on their initial probe.



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