She took the first swing from what I heard reported. She did look like she could kick some tail and was a handful to try to control, but jaywalking, come on.
As far as my city goes, we could do with a huge cut to the police department. This same cop that is involved in this incident has the same mindset, maybe they are trained to have the mindset, that it is not their job to dive into a situation that could end with them being killed.
Example, Columbine, when the Chief of Police stated flat out that it is not a cops job to dive into a dangerous situation that puts his life at risk. Therefore there was no foul in their standing outside of the school listening to the gun shots of two demons killing off children inside the school.
As usual the media could be counted on not to point out that the target of these two trench coated killers were Christian believers.
So the only conclusion I can come to is if a cop won’t show his face until the blood is on the floor, he has no business punching a teenager in the face, that he would never enter a school to save from a killer, for her crime of jaywalking.
Perhaps you haven't read or heard this, but due to the nature of the intersection, there had been a high rate of pedestrian-vehicle accidents. The City went to the expense (spent 'our' MONEY) on providing a SAFE overhead walkway. The officer was on assignment to patrol that area and specifically ticket jaywalkers, in order to reduce the accidents, and ensure that people would adjust to using the walkway.
These two women KNEW there was a walkway, knew cops were giving out tickets for jaywalking at that specific intersection, BECAUSE THEY WERE WATCHING THE COP GIVE SOMEONE ELSE A TICKET FOR DOING SO. They then did the same thing right in front of him, thinking he was too busy to catch them. They were wrong.
I have a church that is on a major intersection. They have cops with radar there much of the time during school. They give out tickets specifically to people who speed in a school zone.
Why? Because if they don't, children get hurt.
If you were to refuse to pull over, or get out of the vehicle, or take the ticket, or tried to fight with them, you would be lucky if you only got one light crack in the face. This is no different than the reason the officer was patrolling a jaywalking zone with a high accident rate, and dealt with some teenagers who thought they could just 'flaunt' the law in his face.