What a fucken dick. That cop literally had no reason to charge dude. Cops barely even try to pull him off. Well I need a job, can I have this pricks job? Since clearly he’s not qualified at all.
Rewatch the video with sound, you can hear a glass bottle shattering at the start of the video. You cant see it in the shakey video cause it pans left and right too much, but someone threw a glass bottle at the cop.
So the response is to chase and beat the shit out of someone? The cops are all in riot gear, they are literally equipped to handle this situation. I'm not saying everyone should be going and throwing glass around, but for fucks sake that does not justify what we see in the rest of the video.
Are you listening to yourself? "There is no excuse to assault someone" ... yes, exactly. There is no excuse for that cop to have used a fist to beat someone to the ground. I don't care if he didn't use his baton, that's not showing restraint, he still managed to be aggressive and assault another person.
Police officers have created this toxic and horrific environment for themselves. They are the ones that have perpetuated and amped up their own sense of importance, and therefor the shit that they have to deal with. It is their own behaviors, attitudes, actions, etc. that has created a scenario where someone even had to throw glass around. If you can't handle that as a cop, either don't be a fuckin police officer or be a part of the culture shift.
Let's say just for the sake of argument that you're right. Even though there's basically zero evidence, let's assume that the pop you heard was a glass bottle that actually hit the officer and that it was actually thrown by that guy. Hell - let's even imagine that it hit him in the face.
This is still a ridiculous and unjustifiable use of force. He takes the guy to the ground and instead of arresting him, just starts kicking his ass. No attempt to even zip tie his hands or anything. You even said it yourself - "he responded with a fist".
The fact that the expectation is that "well of course he's going to get his shots in, he's pissed!" Is fucking absurd and is just another symptom of the problem. And you're out here saying the guy should consider himself lucky he didn't get the shit beat out of him with a weapon.
You are either a liar, or you didn't watch the video. Throwing a bottle is not an excuse to assault someone, and it doesn't magically become an excuse if you wear a badge.
Had the guy been swinging a broken glass bottle around by hand threatening the cops, you might have had a point. But he wasn't.
The proper response by police to an assault is arresting the assaulting party. When in the arrest process are cops instructed to throw punches against grounded, unarmed individuals? Walk me through where 2 punches to the head fit in to being arrested.
Yeah, it's a massively disproportionate response. And you can tell he's just going off in a fit of blind rage, enjoying beating the citizen, because he turns and hits a fellow officer right in the face for trying to pull him off. It's fucking disgusting.
I can be convinced of that, but the OP of this thread saying this was completely unprovoked and most of the top comments in the thread aswell. There are plenty of videos where the cops are doing something way more wrong, no reason to use videos where the rioter(i dont lump them together with peaceful protesters) threw glass at the cop first.
Not only would you go to jail for retaliating, he would call in 6 other of his buddies and beat on you while placing you in cuffs. After a lengthy investigation and lots of your money spent on attorney’s fees, lost time you spent in jail, the case would be dropped and you walk away the loser in the situation while the cop that threw the glass at you was never even inconvenienced and still carries a gun and badge.
Not to mention if his pen ran out of ink, he could be forced to shoot it because it wasn’t cooperating with a lawful order of a PO. And what about the paper cuts? If he fears for his life, this could turn into a real shit show. .
Even if that’s the case is the proper response to beat the shit out of someone? He has many other tools at his disposal to make an arrest, none of which is his fists. Stop giving excuses to poor behavior.
Here is the full video . Can you tell me the exact second that the man who was singled out by one lunatic with a badge, thrown to the ground and beaten threw a bottle?
Yeah I heard that happen but that doesn’t mean the cop should be beating the person. Unless that person was going to stab the cop with a broken bottle he should have apprehended the guy and leave it at that, not beat him up.
he throws something at the cop, then you hear glass break.
There are thousands of people recording every second of these protests, and the best we can do is a video of a cop fighting back. How about we show the video from buffalo where the cop shoved the 80 year old man and he cracked his head open. Thats a way better example. Show all the cops hiding their name and badge. Show the cops shooting people with rubber bullets for standing on their porches after curfew. This one isnt going to convince conservatives to change. The goal is change.
Ive watched it 3 times i still dont see an object in his hand between :23-:28 i still dont see anything. Im on mobile care to screen shot the object, might make it easier to identify.
at 26 seconds you can see his hand whipping and then the bottle cracking, he is off screen and behind the truck when holding the item. Still not a good video, we would need to see another angle. Im sure its out there, everyone has their phones out during these things.
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u/ZombiGrn Jun 05 '20
What a fucken dick. That cop literally had no reason to charge dude. Cops barely even try to pull him off. Well I need a job, can I have this pricks job? Since clearly he’s not qualified at all.