Last September, LAPD captured a Hispanic man who they were chasing on foot after he had abandoned his car. They had been chasing him for running a red light. He complained after he was handcuffed that he could not breathe, and continued to make that complaint for some time while handcuffed in the police car, and on the way to the police station, and then when he was placed - still handcuffed - face down on the floor in a detention cell. Some hours later, someone noticed he was not breathing, and when paramedics arrived, they transported him to a hospital where he died as doctors worked to revive him...He had asthma.
ALL of this was recorded on cameras at the police station, and police officers lied about the incident until someone finally began an investigation into a complaint about it.
http://touch.latimes.com/...
Police supervisors have stated that this does NOT indicate that police officers are unsympathetic to people, despite the HOURS this man begged for help and for medical attention and was told that, since he was talking, he obviously could breathe, and that he should just "man up"...
His death was officially called an accident.
The standard for police behavior seems to be simple...anything they do is right. They are not to be blamed for anything for any reason, and they are really good, nice people who have a tough job and shut the fuck up. This seems to be everywhere and it seems the "cops against everyone else" blue wall mentality rules.