Reports are his wife called the police bc he was armed and threatening suicide. (He was committed under FL's "Baker Act," which has been criticized for criminalizing mental illness.) It's not at all clear, from this video, why he should have been tackled.
https://twitter.com/dcexaminer/status/1310661274972418049
A south Florida elected told me, FL's "use of force matrix is very broad" and the SWAT team was likely justified (under its terms) in the takedown. But activists have long argued those policies are over broad, leading to unnecessary brutality and fatal encounters.
If conservatives feel sympathy or shock at the brutality of the video, they should know the Black Lives Matter movement is pushing for legislation to make such encounters less frequent.
For liberals, I can understand the momentary satisfaction of watching Parscale be subject to the unchecked "law and order" he advocates for others, but such thinking is a moral and political dead-end.
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