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If the officer is being spit on or being attacked somehow then the officer or anyone has a right to protect themselves. I'd have to see the whole thing.

Exactly. I am so sick of cop haters casting the cops as the bad guys attacking unprovoked.

When I was a cop, I arrested a young lady outside a honky tonk for public intoxication. After putting her handcuffed in the back seat of the car, she layed on her back and started kicking the window of the car with all her might, almost breaking it out. I ended up hog tying her. She was a hostile threat, even handcuffed.

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“I am so sick of cop haters casting the cops as the bad guys attacking unprovoked.”

So being “provoked” justifies attacking someone?

Who decides what “provocation” is enough? Isn’t that entirely subjective?

The way I see it, a defense like that won’t fly for the citizenry, so why should we accept it from a cop?