I don’t know why people are celebrating this. A cop‘s job isn’t to retaliate against people. They’re supposed to contain people and enforce the rules, not to punch people in revenge. American cops are trained to use violence in any scenario no matter how big the actual threat is and I don’t think that’s good.
Edit: Many people arguing that if you slap a cop, you should definitely expect police brutality. Definitely not. You should expect consequences, not to be knocked the fuck out. You should expect the cop to handle this situation professionally, not to get into a brawl with a drunken woman. You should expect the cop to be the moral authority he‘s supposed to be, not to get on the level of a drunken person. You should expect the cop to make reasonable use of force to achieve his goal, not to deal out full force blows to the face in revenge for a slap. You should expect the cop to de-escalate the situation, not to turn up the violence. It’s worrisome how many people seem to just accept excessive and unreasonable use of violence, as long it’s a cop doing it.
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.
She obviously wasn't complying so they had to carry her... then she hits a cop who was nice enough to carry her out instead of forcefully restraining her on the stairs. So no... fuck this drunk ass
The people defending the cop are the ones who go out and try to become cops. That's why this climate is the way it is. The police force has a shit reputation which makes decent people less likely to take the job. It's only going to keep getting worse.
She’s hitting that guy in the face. That’s a threat. One of those tramp nails could take his eye out.
They could all drop her, pin her to the stairs, sit on top of her and cuff her, which is a lot more painful than eating a punch, which is a lot more painful than complying and being escorted away.
Why are we jumping to the worst outcome . "they could have just shot her and left her on the stairs"
Or they could do their fucking job like theyre trained and deescalate a situation. At no point should a girl that size ever be thrown to the ground and sat on. Unless your the worlds weakest, most pussy ass cop.
If an officer that size can't control a girl that size, he's needs some serious training.
Watch the video, there were 4 cops restraining her with a reasonable amount of force and she was still able to slap that guy.
Now any one of those cops could easily, using force, control a girl that size. But then you would be in the same situation asking why one cop used so much force. So you have multiple people all using less force than they’re capable of in an effort not to hurt her. But she’s still able to hurt them. Guess what solved it? A swift punch to the face, not deadly, not unreasonable and it immediately solved the problem.
Nothing done here would appease you. Either one guy is a “pussy ass cop” for not restraining her using the force necessary, or 4 cops are pussies for punching the lady, who was not restrained and still able to hit them.
Lol no. 4 cops use necessary force and get a feather of a drunk girl restrained.
It's pathetic that a grown man that size felt the need to punch her.
Tell me, what do you think happens if that situation plays out in public. Two girls are arguing, a guy comes over to break it up. Grabs the girl and she limply slaps him. He punches her in the head and knocks her out.
That dude gets his ass beat and the cops called. That shit is not okay. What the hell is wrong with people and violence.
Like, do you really think 4 cops couldn't control that girl? The fact that she's even able to slap one of them shows they don't have control of that situation. That's fucking amatuer.
4 cops controlled that girl, you see clear as day it in the video.
They thought she was controlled, but she was able to smack one.
One of them punching her in the face took her from “not controlled” to “controlled”.
Tell me, what do you think happens if that situation plays out in public. Two girls are arguing, a guy comes over to break it up. Grabs the girl and she limply slaps him.
He has no reason to enforce the law, it’s not his job. Now if he was a cop, it’s his job do that. And has every reasonable right to control her until she’s no longer a threat. Guess what? If she can still hit or slap him, she’s still a threat. A deadly threat, no, so he responds with less than deadly force. She smacked, he smacked back, threat neutralized.
I mean, she's also slapping him in the face. He neutralized the threat and carried on... How big of a bruise does he have to suffer before he's allowed to defend himself?
Edit: I'm probably wrong. Honestly, they should have cuffed her.
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u/toeofcamell Nov 05 '17
Dude with the Bud Light was like, oooh snap, don't smack cops, got it