The 39-year-old Black man died in 2012 after one St. Louis officer placed him in a chokehold while another shocked him multiple times with a Taser. The medical examiner ruled the death an accident, but experts who recently reviewed the records say it should have been classified as a homicide

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    “Kerwin H. continued his strenuous resistance and appeared to gain strength with each successive cycle of strikes and commands,” Pinkerton [the officer] wrote.

    However, several witnesses who lived at a nearby apartment building told detectives they didn’t see Harris resisting. One witness told a detective she heard Pinkerton cursing at Harris and calling him the N-word.

    I wonder which account of events is more accurate? Hmmmmm…

    And he’s a defender of Derek Chauvin and feels like an entitled victim? Yup, all that tracks.

    “For all you mother f—— at the St. Louis Police Department,” one post began last November, “especially the Internal Affairs Division, you can all kiss my a— for condemning me and pushing me out of my decorated career and losing my ability to retire with the benefits I wanted, all because I exposed the corruption behind the prosecution of Derek Chauvin.”

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          Man, just… just unplug it, extract what you can of yourself from the filter, and get to the emergency room. Stitches in time, and you’ll be fine.

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      Yep. The police saying anything. Carries as much weight as the now defunct weekly world news saying something. Maybe less. I do hope bat boy is getting on okay.