And I wouldn’t presume the cop was in the right just because he’s a cop with a badge and a gun. Whoop-de-doo.
I don’t care what the guy said before the cop attacked him because he was provoked by them even getting in his face to begin with. The cop should have backed the security guard off of him, not jumped in and escalated the situation. We probably have a case of off-duty LE moonlighting as security and working with or knowing the trooper.
>> And I wouldn’t presume the cop was in the right just because he’s a cop with a badge and a gun. Whoop-de-doo. <<
No, the badge and the gun just mean that it would be extraordinarily stupid to try to jump in the fracas, since you could easily end up doing a very long jail sentence.
>> I don’t care what the guy said before the cop attacked him because he was provoked by them even getting in his face to begin with. <<
The first security guard was hardly in his face. He had spoken quietly, and from a distance, and did not response to the shouting.
>> The cop should have backed the security guard off of him, not jumped in and escalated the situation. <<
Due to the convenient editing of the film, we don’t know who escalated the situation. If the man did not threaten anyone, or try to instigate a fight, the edited portion of the film would plainly be exculpatory evidence, which makes you wonder why it was edited out, doesn’t it?
>> We probably have a case of off-duty LE moonlighting as security and working with or knowing the trooper. <<
It certainly does appear that way.