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Though, if the video of that cop getting wedged in the door is the same situation and cop that caused the death (I'm not 100% clear on the link, there), then I don't think even felony murder is appropriate, in my very naive understanding of the law.
It didn't look like that crowd was trying to kill anyone. They were surging their bodies forward against the police line. They wanted "through" the line, not to cause bodily harm to anyone. I don't recall seeing thrown bottles, or fireworks like I saw over and over in the BLM protests. Not necessarily indicating that was intended to harm someone in riot gear, but even that level of "attacking" the police was absent from the video I saw - again, if that's the video of this instance.
Seems to me like manslaughter is a more appropriate charge. Meaning that what you did was recklessly negligent and was not unlikely to cause serious injury to another person, and you *should* have known better, but alas, you were just being stupid and not murderous, so the penalty is not the same.
Like drunk driving is often prosecuted as involuntary manslaughter if there's a vehicular accident and anyone is injured.
Again... I am just guessing, here... connecting some dots on my own, and not at all well acquainted with the specific laws in DC.
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