Quote Originally Posted by bobh View Post
There's also a pic listing his sentences -

including 10 months in 1998 for armed robbery, and
5 years in 2007 for 'armed robbery of a pregnant woman in her home'


I'd class armed robbery as a violent crime.

But his past record is largely irrelevant in the case of the cops choking him .


*edit*

Reading on, the sentences listed in the pic are dubious, to say the least.
Yes it was irrelevant to the case, but the media were making him out to be some kind of saint. Would you put a bloke on a pedestal who had 9 drink driving offences, and consider him to be a lovable rougue? The law is the law and we all have to abide by the rules, plus the article was written by the perception changing Snopes website.