Heart Failure == Homicide?

[Pianomahnn]

I was, unfortunatly, reading the stupid ass newspaper this morning.

It seems a medical examiner ruled a police offer's death a homicide. Why? He was in a scuffle with a bad dude, and the cop dropped dead.

That wreaks of dumb to me. Yeah, so the cop died as a result of doing his job; protecting the peace. How is that a homicide? The bad dude wasn't like, "I'm going to kill you by giving you heart disease, clogged arteries, and then stop your heart!!" The bad dude was just doing his own thang, which was bad, but still, he didn't <i>kill</i> the cop. Cop probably killed himself. Years of McDonald's and stuff like that.

Stupid shit.

[Billyman]

Well, you already know how fucked up the law and our judicial system is. They look at this way:

Cop has bad heart.

Bad dude resist arrest or whatever, thus causing added stress to the bad hearted cop.

Cop dies.

Someone has to be at fault, why not the bad dude?

Booyah! Bad dude kills cop in scuffle.

Yeah, it's bullshit, it's just finger pointing.

Bah. I'm with you there P-mahnn.

[Pianomahnn]

I always thought cops had to be in somewhat "healthy" condition.

[Billyman]

Have you not payed attention to most of those 12 hamburger eatin, 300 lb, couldn't run 10 feet without collapsing cops? Geesh. Some of them are pathetic.

[MuffyTheVampyreLayer]

What kind of homicide?
Would the cop have died had it not been for the accused's actions?
Did the cop have an existing heart condition?
There are several ways to cause heart failure through external force, were any of these used by the accused?

Just because it was a heart attack dosn't mean it wasn't homicide.