An officer died of a heart attack while attacking Virgilio Aguilar Méndez; now Aguilar Méndez is facing murder charges.

  • Death_Equity@lemmy.world
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    10 months ago

    In some states you can be charged for the death of someone during the commission of a felony. It is meant to be used for something like you and three people rob a bank and one of your crew shoots a guard. Even though you didn’t pull the trigger, you catch the charge.

    You can be charged with a felony resisting arrest if the cop is hurt while arresting you. So they are trying to extend it to the cop having a heart attack due to the strain he exerted while the guy was resisting arrest.

    Bullshit application of the law, cop was being a dick, kid shouldn’t have been here but didn’t deserve none of this.

    • ExLisper@linux.community
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      10 months ago

      It is meant to be used for something like you and three people rob a bank and one of your crew shoots a guard.

      It’s worse than that. You can be charged with murder for borrowing a car to those three, even if you didn’t took part in the robbery.