I’d like to hear the whole story, too.
I’d be willing to bet money that the incident didn’t start and end with a single snowball being tossed.
Maybe the cop was a jerk. Maybe he was a good guy who over-reacted. Maybe the snowball was the last straw in a long series of taunts and harassment.
What passes for reporting in most of these stories strikes me as propaganda for one side or the other. Real reporting would answer the basic questions that any average reader would have. It wouldn’t advocate for one side or the other. This article seems to be trying to make the kid look like the victim.
Excellant points. That was my concern, but you said it very well.