For that matter even if a person was chained to my refrigerator, I would not torture him. I would simply remove him. Now if he was resisting with any kind of force, that changes things.
I haven't studied this particular case but the fact that they were able to apply pepper spray to their eyes with swabs, makes it pretty clear they weren't fighting them.
Cops simply abusing their authority.
"I would simply remove him. Now if he was resisting with any kind of force, that changes things."
See thats the crux of the matter. You cannot simply remove them, because they are chained up and refuse to leave.
You must use some force to move them and that is what the officers did.
You are obviously not aware of the full facts. If you were, I hardly think a "Leo" would assert such nonsense as you have in your post. You were not given the full set of facts in the article.