Sorry, if you watch that video and feel the officers actions are justified, you basically are advocating a police state.
Here let’s have two cops on top of you holding you down on your belly.. one of them kneeing you in the kidneys repeatedly while the third punches you repeatedly in the face and then starts grabbing your hair and repeatedly lifting your head up by the hair and bashing your face into the concrete.
There is ABSOLUTELY no justification for this behavior. I am all for use of force, even deadly to neutralize a threat.. but once a threat is neutralized you don’t have cart blanche authority to just beat the snot out of a suspect because you are an arsehole.
Had the glorious pleasure of listening to 3 cops at the bar last night share their stories... Not sure how much of their shit was drunken braggadocio and bigger penis syndrome, but celebrating a 15 year old unarmed girl got killed because the cops shot the wrong person is repugnant, and I got to listen to that...
I am pro law and order, and I have known cops my entire life, a lot of good men and women, but these 3 at the bar last night honest to God, I had to leave.
“Police said when the officers confronted him, he pushed a deputy to the ground and punched the back of his head, leading to the arrest seen in the clip.”
I do not have a problem with their response to a person who does this to an officer without a damn good reason other than they think its totally acceptable to do so.
The restraint is they didn’t shoot the attacking person.
Read my history, I am not a universal cheerleader for police. This guy thought stomping on a cop was great. He got stomped on back. Perhaps he will think twice about doing so next time.
The world is full of a$$holes. Why? Because people let them get away with it.