I'm sure if you asked him how to handle it in a time where he was calm and could think it out, he would handle it better.
Take average citizens, place them under heavy stress, they are going to use the incorrect amount of force a majority of the time. With the thousands of arrests a year there are going to be unlucky cases every once in a while where someone dies.
The best way to avoid it is to stop criminalizing non crimes, train and support your officers better.
Yep. All this dude had to do was go "Maybe this will look really badly, let's just take the knee off him and see if he passes out on his own."
I'm sure if you asked him how to handle it in a time where he was calm and could think it out, he would handle it better.
Take average citizens, place them under heavy stress, they are going to use the incorrect amount of force a majority of the time. With the thousands of arrests a year there are going to be unlucky cases every once in a while where someone dies.
The best way to avoid it is to stop criminalizing non crimes, train and support your officers better.