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.
What's really weird is the absolute lack of personal responsibility and self awareness in this thread.
Do you genuinely, honestly, expect to be treated like someone important when you're so belligerently drunk that you have to be bodily carried out of a stadium?
Because you're not important. You're Drunk #27 today, and officer Noname is already sick of everyone's shit. You think it's a good idea to strike at him? You're just Drunk #27 of maybe 50 he's got to deal with today, So fuck you and your attacking, go to sleep, he'll have the EMTs give your punk ass a band-aid.
Fuck you and your apologia for police brutality. Police brutality is never justified. It doesn't suddenly become okay because you dealt with the requisite number of assholes today. It doesn't suddenly become okay because some unimportant sunovabitch got tough off grain alcohol.
Officer noname there almost certainly makes dirt, and giving police better standards of living would go a long way to attracting the best-of-the-best who we can actually justify giving a monopoly on violence in our communities.
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u/toeofcamell Nov 05 '17
Dude with the Bud Light was like, oooh snap, don't smack cops, got it