I feel like I stumbled onto DU..... some kind of computer time warp
I'm with you two...
Some people's threshold of being "ruffed up" is a notch or two below other's...
It was reported that the original "victim", referred to by the media only as "the retired school teacher" supposedly walked right up to a mounted officer to "ask him some questions" while another officer on foot "interrupted" the victim and told him to step away from the mounted officer.
The victim said in his own words that he told the second officer that "he shouldn't do that" (interrupt his conversation with the mounted officer).
Use your imagination pn how the "victim" worded his request to the second officer....
The school teacher probably incited the beating by resisting and it's evident that he kept on fighting by trying to buck the occicers off even when grounded.
With witnesses present, if the yeacher was completely innocent he would/should have just laid down peacefully imo...