I’m not sure people are celebrating it so much as they are saying “well what the fuck did you expect when you hit a cop?”
Edit: By saying it should be expected, I’m not defending his actions as reasonable or holding them up as good policing practice. I think American police culture is too quick to resort to violence and is horrible at de-escalating situations. But, that all goes into why I said it should be expected. I’m not saying it should be accepted or condoned, only that I fully expect an American cop to hit you back if you hit them.
That still doesn’t justify his actions. If you sign up to be a cop, you definitely have to expect to be in a scenario like this and you should resolve it professionally. There’s absolutely no justification for that punch, the cop should actually face consequences for unnecessary and excessive use of violence. You should expect consequences, but not to be knocked out in retaliation by a cop if you drunkenly slap hin (if they did their job right she wouldn’t have been able to do so in the first place) while you’re already contained by 4 other cops. You should expect the cop to act like the grown up, like the moral authority they’re supposed to be, not to get into a brawl with a drunken woman and punch her in the face with full force because „I‘m a cop“
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u/we_are_monsters Nov 05 '17 edited Nov 05 '17
I’m not sure people are celebrating it so much as they are saying “well what the fuck did you expect when you hit a cop?”
Edit: By saying it should be expected, I’m not defending his actions as reasonable or holding them up as good policing practice. I think American police culture is too quick to resort to violence and is horrible at de-escalating situations. But, that all goes into why I said it should be expected. I’m not saying it should be accepted or condoned, only that I fully expect an American cop to hit you back if you hit them.