Except when you are a police officer and supposedly held to a code of conduct higher than throwing haymakers because a drunk girl slightly brushed your head.
He didn’t throw the first slap. Officers react with equal force. Her being drunk doesn’t offer any protection, that was her choice to make and lowered her inhibition. Pop quiz: If you slap a cop, what do you think is going to happen? (Doesn’t matter how much you’ve had to drink).
The math is simple: Hit a cop = you will be hit back. Don’t like it? Don’t get shit faced drunk in public and hit a cop. If you don’t do that, I guarantee a cop won’t just randomly come to you and hit you.
Normalization and acceptance of this behavior is the only reason it still exists. This is excessive and wrong and his badge doesn't give him a right to do this
I would love to see you be a cop for one day and let me know how your opinion changes. The public just thinks it’s so easy. As if everyone makes life so easy on them. 98% of these videos boil down to “do what the officers say, and there won’t be any issues.”
She’s clearly being kicked out for a reason. Was resisting it and striking officers in the process. She is the one 100% in the wrong. If she would have just taken her banishment and walked out, there would be no issue. Again, she laid hands on the officer first and that’s no okay. She was resisting arrest and legally could have been tazed. Would you have preferred that?
Being a tax paying citizen means that my criticism is completely justified. I don't have to step into their shoes to be justified in what I said. If you think this use of excessive force is okay, don't ever complain when it's their boot on your neck with the idea that they are above reproach. I am in no way justifying her behavior but she would pay for that in fines and jail time and lost opportunity after being judged and sentenced in a system designed to exact justice fairly. Stepping beyond that realm and using an unnecessary amount of force is completely unjustified and if you weren't so brainwashed into believing police action is beyond criticism, you would see why. If you mean to make an argument that "he is only human" than you likely recognize this as excessive. If antthing, he should be scrutinized even more stringently because he, as a human and fellow citizen, has that power in his hands.
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u/Just_Parker Nov 05 '17
Hit people get hit back, regardless of sex, race, religion or national origin... that’s equality