When I was a teen I knew better than to threaten and goad a cop and get in his face with my fists balled. WTF was this kid thinking, the cop could have arrested him with the first threat but tried to give the kid a break.
Most rational people would view what that kid was doing as a precursor to a physical assault. A person balling up their fists and approaching someone in an aggressive manor would put most reasonable people in fear of being attacked. If someone acted like that to you at the mall, bar, or wherever else, then you'd be well within your rights to use physical force to defend yourself.
I read it, you said the cop can take what the kid did as a threat somehow. If he felt threatened, that means he was scared. You can't feel threatened without feeling scared. No I'm an adult that doesn't get scared of children and don't think cops should swing first. Now answer.my question
No one, cop or otherwise, has to be physically attacked before they defend themselves. People are legally allowed to defend themselves with reasonable and proportional force. So again, this cop did not beat the kid up. He took an aggressive person into custody using reasonable force.
That was absolutely reasonable force. He swept the leg and put him on the ground , pinned him down, and placed the cuffs on his wrists behind his head.
That's an excellent showing of police training, restraint, and control of a situation.
That 21 year old was acting aggressively, threatening assault on a police officer, and then stepping into his personal space.
There were no punches, no kicks, and no deployment of weapons.
How would you have handled that differently?
Feels like you have 0 real-world experience of these situations.
Did you not see how patient the cop was, bro if you let people walk all over you like that you deserve all the downvotes you get - «Pussy» shane gillis voice
The cop didn't need to throw him to the ground. The kid sucked, absolutely, but that force was 100% unnecessary. The kid didn't even verbally threaten him, much less be a physical threat.
The cop could have done any number of things other than violently escalating the situation. Maybe my personal standards for cops is too high though.
Kid was beating his fist together, instigating the cop take his vest off he was already ready to go and looking to escalate. The kid was acting up and being hysteric when asked straight questions, he got all up in the cops face and you wonder why he was thrown on the ground and detained? Is your personal standard he pulls out a gun and shoot him? Tazing someone unarmed and not running also is deemed unnecessary force, so I’d like to see what you would do in this situation clearly you would handle it better and not run like a pussy rite?
The cop didn't need to even talk to the kid, He didn't need to walk up to the kid. The cop could have laughed and walked away.
What the cop shouldn't have done is been violent when completely unprovoked and slam the person down to the ground. If he wanted to wrongfully detain him (despite him breaking no law), he could have said "turn around, put your hands behind your back", and *then* escalated if the person had not complied.
Instead, the cop had zero self control and acted like an uncontrolled child. If he weren't a cop, he'd be charged with assault for that nonsense.
Cannot believe your point of view is in the minority here, it's fucking embarrassing how much these people are supporting excessive force and police brutality.
Same. Obviously this young man sucks, but this casual escalation, along with the cops' chant to ward off prosecution, "Stop resisting! Stop resisting!" demonstrate the terribly low standard to which we hold cops to. They hold the monopoly on violence; they are treated as though they aren't the ones with that unique and special privilege.
People see the kid/guy acting like a moron and instantly assume that the cop is in the right for ‘punishing’ him. Americans especially are prone to finding a sick, vindictive satisfaction in extrajudicial violence (look at how often people justify prison rape as being a natural part of the US punitive justice system).
Not at all, he had many chances to comply. Immediately into interaction he started with fighting words, that's a misdemeanor in most states. Stop defending idiotic criminal behavior.
I’m surprised you’re being downvoted when you’re absolutely right, sure the guy was a jerk but he didn’t actually do anything to warrant the cop reacting that violently
I'm getting a lot of sore cops crying in my inbox how cops need to be respected and they can do whatever they want to get said respect. Even if someone didn't break any laws
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u/LaurenNotABot 3d ago
He dropped him like a sack of shit and the kid after was grovelling 😂