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.