Exactly the first reaction I had to the manipulated story. Without knowing what happened the 30 seconds before, no subsequent action or reaction can be fairly judged.
It all started with Rodney King. We never have seen the 5 minutes that led up to his deserved ass-whuping.
When, in a crowd, a liquid is tossed, it could be anything from plain water to contaminated human waste, to acid, to caustic soda, to---- silly string. Contemporary milititant activists, for the most part, have no judgement and no restraint. Perhaps they are trying hard to win the "lottery by cop." Not that they would get anything if I were on their jury.
The police officer striking the woman was not manipulated. He assaulted her and should be fired and jailed. The non-officer witnesses to the scene have a *horrified* reaction to the scene while the officer witnesses fall in line to defend a boy who struck a woman.
Some people worship government employees the same way the ancient Greeks worshiped the gods on Olympus—don’t *dare* say anything against the gods, if you do, you deserve what happens to you.
” Without knowing what happened the 30 seconds before, no subsequent action or reaction can be fairly judged.”
Really? We can see from the video she represented no immediate threat to him or anyone else. Even if she had thrown urine on the cop that would have only justified arrest.
In this case the cop is the one with a lack of restraint.
If you never saw those five minutes, how do you know his "ass-whuping(sic)" was deserved? See, you junior birdmen want to have it both ways.
Time to grow up, hold cops (especially sergeants) to a common standard of conduct. They should act with as least as much restraint as they demand of the populace at their mercy. Otherwise they are just thugs in uniform, like this one.
“It all started with Rodney King. We never have seen the 5 minutes that led up to his deserved ass-whuping.”
I saw it! I was working nights, and I saw the very first video,,, before it was cropped. King kept getting up, and tried to walk around the back of his car. He was completely resisting the officers. I think he was on PCP, or something. It was an amazing vid, never to be seen again!
Doesn't matter what happened 30 seconds ago...Had she assaulted the cop, he has the means to arrest her and be charged in court...But we know for sure the cop assaulted the woman; and her recourse is that he will get his day in court and the taxpayers will be poorer for it...
I suspect the cop knew there was nothing to arrest anyone for so he clobbered the person who would be the least to resist his attack for someone showing disrepect for his ego inflated position...
It was however a slap and not a punch as the media would like us to believe...