No threat outside losing your eyesight from stupid 15 y.o. girl who you think can’t hurt you ‘til you get a fingernail shoved into your cornea.
15 y.o. girls shoot, stab, punch, scratch, every day in this state.
But the size difference on camera is such that it plays into people’s perceived notions of how boys and girls are supposed to act.
Nothing changes, ever, you’re not supposed to make the girl cry in grade school or police work.
And yes, I know someone who has had eye damage from this sort of thing.
This deputy had a guy try to strangle him with his own portable microphone cord before. He knows how bad it can get in a hurry, even from a person smaller than himself.
If you have to use force, you have to use reasonable force and end it quickly.
He did that in my opinion.
Again, I’d question why she was not in cuffs in the holding cell, but since I wasn’t there I don’t know the reason why.
I once thought a 15 y.o. girl couldn’t harm me and then I got punched twice before I figured out it can happen to me too.
I did the dance with her trying to be nice because I didn’t want to scrape her up on the pavement and it lasted 5 minutes instead of 10 seconds.
And you know what happened? The NAACP demanded I be fired after I used zero force.
So which is better? Going through the media telling people you should be fired for getting punched? Or going through the media and a prosecutor accusing you of assault and you didn’t get punched?
Get an application and pick you poison.
Why didn’t he just shut the cell door and walk away? Then he wouldn’t have been in any danger, from her or her fingernails.