Did David Woodman need to die?

I don't get the reference, spleen of Sheena. I don't spleen's arguments either.

Officer on an emergency call - officer in trouble - with lights and sirens on hit car in intersection and kills driver.

The investigation showed that Officer Jesse Stots was stationed at D Street and Cypher Street in South Boston at approximately 1:00 p.m. when he responded to a radio call for an officer in trouble and a man with a knife at 8 Orton Marotta Way. Stots was not aware that multiple officers were already on-scene when he drove his marked cruiser southwest on D Street toward and ultimately through the West Broadway intersection. His lights and sirens were activated and he was driving at just over 50 miles per hour.

The investigation also showed that McNally was simultaneously travelling southeast on West Broadway toward D Street. Her Saab entered the intersection, hesitated, and then began to proceed just as the cruiser entered the intersection. Witnesses told investigators that Stots’ cruiser appeared to swerve in a bid to avoid a collision but struck the driver’s side door of McNally’s vehicle, causing massive injuries that killed the South Boston woman.

Conley was emphatic that McNally had no culpability in the crash that took her life.

“The evidence is clear that Ms. McNally acted cautiously and reasonably and bears no responsibility for the collision,” he said.

Whether Stots had a red or green light was the subject of intense scrutiny, with conflicting accounts given by different witnesses during the course of the investigation. Many witnesses, focused on the crash itself, were simply unable to offer any definitive statement as to which vehicle had the red or green signal. What investigators could determine was that Stots was driving at a high rate of speed while en route to a serious radio call, which the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts has viewed as a mitigating factor when considering negligence.

Following meetings with McNally’s family members and their attorney, David Eisenstadt, Conley today notified Boston Police Commissioner Edward Davis of his findings, urging the Boston Police Department to review its policies related to emergency calls to ensure the safety of civilian motorists. Specifically, he suggested that the Department review training for new and experienced officers, policies on red lights and intersections, communication between cruisers and dispatchers, and the potential use of dashboard cameras in cruisers

The destructive mob atmosphere and Grabowski's death during post championship celebration on the streets of Boston prompted the Mayor and new Commissioner to come up with new strategy but their focus seems to be on crowd control and protecting property, more that crowd control and protect lives. There may be an attitude by a small number of officers that punks who destroy property deserve what they get instead of a less impassioned approach where arrests for substantive law-breaking are made civilly when they can be and with minimal sufficient force when they cannot.

Drinking a beer in public may not rise to the level of a forceful arrest that is if the policemen's claim that Woodmen fled to avoid accountability is not true.

Snelgrove's death is attributable to using the wrong tool in the wrong way, like so many taserings. And Woodman's death seems like it was an overreaction in terms of the need to arrest forcefully and the failure to observe the arrested person while in their care. People shouldn't suffer brain damage in police custody.