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They should be charged with assault and battery, like anyone else who did that would be.
It should also be a hate crime against a vulnerable person. Put those fuckers away for 10 years.
Sadly, hate is a legitimate political position, and those in power are not unanimously against hatred being a dominant force within society.
Trump's holding rallies that explicitly promise a violent dictatorship and call for killing some of the most oppressed groups of people, and he's about to be elected President for the second time. Then people like these cops are going to be celebrated and encouraged.
And make that 10 years a mandatory minimum. Meaning no getting out on good behavior.
They would conduct an investigation onto themselves and find no wrongdoing.
This seems like at least attempted manslaughter to me.
You mean assault with a deadly weapon?
Manslaughter is accidental, so attempted manslaughter is just attempt of murder.
No, manslaughter is just not premeditated. We don't know whether or not the cops went in trying to kill the man, but they definitely knew that what they were doing had that potential.
https://leppardlaw.com/criminal-law/homicide-lawyers/what-is-attempted-manslaughter/
And now I know. Thanks squiddums!
Depends on the region. Lots of places have 2nd degree murder for murders that perpetrated by someone who had intent but did not plan it, then use manslaughter for the death of someone which was not intentional but should have known that there was a probability of death occuring.