That is cowardice, not “bullying”.
The problem is that it seems that this kind of officer is the rule rather than the exception.
Stay away from the Seattle cops.
Maaany officers are combat reservists —there’s huge synergy between the roles. This is especially true in a time when we’re fighting a long, low-intensity war.
When a country fights a long, low-intensity war, it turns soldiers into cops, and cops into soldiers.
They come back from a place that seldom had a coherent set of laws, and the new insurgents are ordinary citizens.
Now that we have a Prez who will be sending the US military into 29 countries in Africa, that WILL trend will continue; the notion of having a neighborly exchange with street cops will eventually seem absurd.
Cops will be OCCUPIERS and ENEMIES.
Sad, huh...? It’s coming.
The video is clear.
The guy was biting the officers hand.
The officer immediately reacted to the bite by striking the biter to get him to release his hand.
The biter drew blood from the bite he inflicted.
Like I said, the video is clear.
There was no reason to punch, there were 3 other cops holding the guy.
They did it because they can, you could be next.
Is this guy a “peace officer” serving the public? Are any of them in the film clip?
And all this time I thought the good voters of Seattle loved their union thug cops.
I want to see the whole video.
This guy in no way, no how deserved to be assaulted by these officers like this. He was in full control of the officers at this point.
They could have tazed him or used pepper spray, they didn't have to beat the crap out of him.
How in the heck do you defend against something like this? Just wow! Wow!
Watch the whole video, people. The perp parks his car and leaves it running in a no parking zone adjacent to a store. The police think he is \about to commit a crime or has already committed one. The police ask him to move the car and he in turn gives the police a bunch of lip. They run a check on the perp and find he has previously assaulted police officers. They first restrained him on the hood of the car, he fought back, and the incident escalated. Sure looks like justified force to me.
I know if a policeman asks me to move, I do it quickly, politely, and with no sass or lip to the officer. What’s so hard about that? It’s a pretty simple rule to live by and you can easily go an entire lifetime without an encounter such as seen on this video.
The guy probably deserved the Maglite Migraine. He failed to grovel quickly enough when ordered. Good thing he didn’t have his dog with him.
I don’t want to watch 42 minutes, where is the assault by the copper