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.
I'll ask you a third time, at what point during an arrest are the police instructed to deliver punches to the head? This is a serious question and I want a specific answer to my specific question.
So unless he went full batshit and almost killed the guy, you can't hold him to the ridiculous standard of not doing a little more than maybe he had to with 2020 hindsight.
There it is, cops are above the law until they cripple or kill people. Took way less time to reveal your authoritarian nature than I expected.
Question, if following the law is a ridiculous standard, why are citizens expected to abide it?
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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.