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Cop Dies of Heart Attack Following Struggle to Arrest Teen

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0:00 [Music] there has been a teen recently charged with manslaughter after a Florida cop dies of a heart attack following a struggle to arrest him W what the cop's fault for having a heart attack for being a fat but let him know somehow the people that ran away they got they got in a little tussle M cuz he resisting arrest so to speak oh okay I'm with Joe man like the cop was doing his job cuz you're supposed to be hopping fences and Sh and if you hop a fence and you have a heart attack going over the fence that's kind of your B it is a little bit funny that cops are allowed to be so unfit well it's cuz you

0:50 just shoot a guy you don't have to chase him oh you're right it's a lot of work what if your finger can't fit in the trigger hole they need to make bigger guns they got to give them bigger guns man bore it you got to bore it with a drill I'm just wondering like okay when you when you go and take a test like you have to take a physical test for pretty much every single Department I know in Southern California so these guys have to uh test take this test they have to pass but then there's nothing that keeps them on track throughout their life yeah maybe they they took the test 20 years ago and just like a lot of driver's license people just don't need to retake them for hell long they in the military up like every year you got to keep you got to keep doing it yeah that makes sense they're fighting for a good cause hell good cause is that is that also due to like having such a shortage of cops like

1:41 they're willing to let you know or maybe it's we're supposed to be body positive yeah they're not fat sh fat cops too okay and being fat is being healthy too you perfect healthop too okay I saw a video of a girl who's saying that if you're fat as ████ you're completely healthy and that's so I believe oh really yeah oh the one that just died huh no no no she hasn't died yet oh she hasn't died yet okay there was a a a cop friend of mine I was like damn dude so isn't it crazy like when they always run you have to go chase him he goes I don't run and I'm like what do you do he goes man I just called the helicopter and call make a we just create a strike I'm like what he goes man how far can he get on foot I could get way further on my cruiser so I was like so what do you do he goes we just set up a perimeter we know the block that he's in and then they'll eventually get get them and I'm

2:32 like you mean the other cops would get them he's like pretty much Crown Victorious baby setting up a perimeter sounds so sick though it does sounds ████ cool are they annoyed by like fat cops ████ yeah they are huh the ones that actually train like both uh like in in the fitness sense and also the ones that like brush up on their like you know Jiu-Jitsu or martial arts like like actually want to be a better cop they're ████ pissed cuz then they have to hold their weight like imagine like that's your partner yeah literally let's imagine that's her partner and the the type of like um like what's like like the ethos of being a cop when you guys are Partners you guys are responsible for each other's lives and you face each other's wives right so you're like I I'm get I'm I'm responsible for bringing you back home this guy's watched the cop movie I know you watch watch that one in La that was

3:24 good so yeah they're in charge of it and then so like when when when you're the one that has to go and break the news to ████ Carol or whatever like you feel bad you know yeah like sorry my partner died cuz he was too fat do you think they pair fat cops together oh ████ I don't know if the tires can handle it yeah for explorers can only take so much oh my God even like um gun training like my buddy he does the he's he does the training for the uh sheriff department and he was telling me all I thought all cops were like really good at shoo shooting he goes nah they don't even practice and I'm like what he goes dude some of them they don't even know how to ████ shoot like I'm like damn shouldn't they all learn how to shoot though and he's like man most of them are just giving tickets out all day they're never in action some of them

4:15 only shoot during the qual day like once a year and then they never unholster the weapon makes sense when they like LAPD shoots guy like 71 times honestly they're getting their rounds out for the year and they're just like all around the target my friend he runs like the shooting courses for the sheriffs and then uh he showed me this one video and I'm like Jesus ████ Christ you know like when you're inexperienced you're more Spazzy and you're more likely to be violent right so they have this one scenario where it's all Airsoft so that you can like practice like simulation rounds and then it's a guy and a cop and their partner they're approaching a vehicle they stop them you don't know what happened and you have to just go through your regular protocol and say like LIC and registration whatever he just lit up the whole car and then there's another person that comes out that is coming out

5:05 going hey you guys are police I'm filming you guys I I I like shoots thaty have to pay attention that this guy at any time could drop his phone and pull out a gun too so any everything could be a threat at any who I didn't think about that being something so they're like okay so the guy standing over here these two people they go up on round one of the class they go up to the car and immediately they're like license to registration cuz they because the scenario was already up here yeah and then you hear the instructor go no no no like it has to escalate they just go license and registration and then the other guy goes I'm filming this boom boom boom you see that face mask go they're like no no you just killed everybody holy ████ ████ crazy dude I

5:55 was like oh my ████ god they God they're doing stuff like that though so they God yeah yeah yeah yeah they got promoted you know than God they're Swat now so SW oh ████ dude is it true that cops are H roided up some of them some of them have to be I hear that of cuz of the adrenaline or whatever ████ I think the ones that work the jails they have to cuz when you work the jails you don't have any weapons you only have a flashlight and a cuz if you get in a tussle with the inmate they'll take your weapon so you're not lot of knives or guns may you have to be roin it up you don't have to but a lot of them are like you have to L of this job you're taking it cuz when they bring someone in in custody that guy could be on PCP yeah so if this guy is strong enough to break handcuffs they're like I might as well jump on steroids cuz this is ████ crazy be the weapon Ken yeah or I'll

6:46 also be on PCP give me that you guys know now it's getting a tussle yeah speaking of C movies where partners to face their wives you ever see the movie Lethal Weapon yeah do you know what the lethal weapon was the wife no it was M Mel gibons oh himself GI him himself was it not the gun not not only is he a Lethal Weapon he was also Jesus he was Jesus in that scene where he no no he was also Jesus he directed yeah he was Jesus that's cannon with Lethal Weapon that was a sequel yeah that a prequel great movie M Gibb was so good in that movie so this might be the point of the video where I start

7:37 giving more facts about the case yes um you're allowed one more fact ████ uh ████ dude was an illegal oh the cop no the guy who had a heart attack the cop wa what was it illegal all right anyways he a federali dude so he's a Guatemalan teen right and the way that this went down he's 18 y old uh and apparently what had happened cuz there was a there was like body cam footage of this too this dude mened how fat the cop was no the body Cam's on the cops you can't see his fat I know I thought you heard him breathing on the body like I'm so fat didn't something happen in New York where some migrants beat up a cop and then they ran away yeah yeah they got they they were released yeah but this article is different Joe so this one

8:27 body cam footage shows mendz slowly walking along the sidewalk when kunovich the cop orders him to stop and starts interrogating him stop nice did not respond to the officer in English but in another language which his attorney Philip Royal confirmed it is mam I guess it's the name of the language he should have said Alto that means stop it's an indigenous language reportedly spoken in the teens he didn't even speak Spanish he should have said Alto even though I don't know if that's the same as ma'am uh in the video Mendes explains in halting English that he was eating and informs the officer that he's staying at the motel the teen tells the officer that he doesn't speak English as he requests identification and asks if he has any weapons no Mendes responds well you know what that is kunovich said while telling the team to turn around before grabbing his arm don't pull away from me at this moment Mendes attempted to walk away but kunovich and another officer pushed him to the ground the

9:17 team could be heard saying I'm sorry stop and no repeatedly while the struggle ensued do you want to get tased one officer asked get on the ground no problem Mendes responded during the incident Mendes was shocked several times with like a taser yeah which is weird he's just static clean on his shirt emotionally shocked he's the walking barf on carpet tou the team reiterated that he does not speak English seemingly not understanding their commands he also called for his family the video shows a moment officer handcuffed him kunovich suffered a fatal heart attack collapsing 8 minutes after the struggle and medical examiner concluded that the emotional stress from the incident could have played a role cuz he was sad police claimed that mandz had held a pocket knife but the weapon was not found until he was restrained according to the report oh so he never drew it Mendes's team explained that the knife was used for cutting melons at work damn so this

10:09 is really weird because based off of like even that it's like the the the the way that they talk to each other is like get on the ground he's like okay and then moments later he gets shocked eight times you know what I mean like everything seems like he wasn't resisting arrest in a weird way that that's transcribed but they still shock the ████ out of him and 8 minutes later this guy dies out of like a heart attack because of maybe emotional stress I think the article is trying to say that we should keep our borders open because it makes the jobs easier for cops give it all speaking language right wait the teen died or the cop died the cop died so the cop did the tasing and he went oh yeah cuz theer was connected to the electricity his heart and he used it all he's like the Wesley Snipes meme where he's holding the gun but he's got tears in his eyes it's like that cuz cuz it I ain't a Kill don't push man yeah it hurt

11:00 him more is that from New Jack City yes yeah but the teen is being charged with manslaughter and is being detained right now there's the difference between Florida and New York if the difference yeah if if the migrant is if the cop dies in New York it's more like oh you shouldn't have done that to the migrant in Florida if the cop dies and then they tell the migrant you shouldn't have stressed out the cop dude why did you stress the cop out so hard it's true that's ████ up they're charging them with manslaughter though yeah the kid yeah yeah yeah because there's no way that he would have the intention well I mean I guess that's why it's manslaughter cuz it's like you're not intending for them to die but it is still a weird charge cops incompetent like you're supposed to be fit you're supposed to be able to handle you're supposed to be able to handle emotional

11:50 stress yeah yeah this is your job you got heart disease not the Guatemalan boy not enough training really right so you got high cholesterol not the Guatemalan boy he's cutting melons so so far over half a million people have signed a change. or petition to support and release uh Mendes yeah and they're saying that if he's convicted and sentenced to prison for this incident it will create an extremely dangerous precedent in this country because if a police officer dies from a heart attack during a police citizen encounter anyone in this country can be charged convicted and sentenced to life in prison for that officer's death bro yeah I mean that should encourage better I don't think it should be a criminal case I think it should be like maybe they just sue the station for uh work work Hazard type of death and they should somehow petition to bring this case up to New York so it's safer maybe that's why maybe that's

12:40 why they're pushing it to be a manslaughter case so the station itself doesn't have to pay that could be well who's paying for what people like um you know like if the if the family of the cop wants a settlement because it was a workplace related like you know who like a lot of people will they're already going to get it like cops have life insurance so they're already going to get a payment that's going to help them out we can get more that's true yeah we should always have more it seems like a way to avoid that but also man it sucks to be prone to heart attacks while you're doing your job yeah cuz if it is convict if he is convicted then that sets the Precedence of oh it's not any it's not the station it's for sure not that dude's fault though because he didn't even draw his weapon and he had it on him that kind of says a lot that he wasn't trying to how

13:30 did they catch this guy if the cop died during the arrest it's like he probably didn't run away skipping dude yeah exactly that's why even worse for the manslaughter thing to me his partner got him yeah what was I guess the question would be like what is the probable cause to be stopped in the first place like what was he doing you know that's he's just probably being Brown in town guemal Brown in town yeah that's what happen dude degree Brown in town Brown in town your ████ round round town get on town get on the

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