My granddaughter was at the pool that afternoon. This was a rowdy bunch of thugs who don’t live in the subdivision who took over the pool area and were threatening and intimidating the residents. I don’t know if the cop did entirely the right thing or not, but there is definitely another side to the story. These were not ‘sweet innocent children’ by any means, and they tried to bully the security and cops like they did the residents. When it didn’t work, they cried police brutality.
Yet a knee-jerk reaction is that somehow, they are one and the same. It is a huge disconnect.
The cop in that video was part of the problem. The good kids that were there, and obviously (if you watch the video) there were a lot of them (addressing the cops as "sir" and cooperating with reasonable instructions - asking people to leave such a scene is NOT reasonable and freedom-minded independent people KNOW this, including American teens; what is reasonable is to ask them to stand out of the way), now know for certain sure that at least one cop is as worthy of contempt and scorn as the bad thug kids, maybe worse because he was an adult in authority, yet completely lost all control and spoke to kids using language that was way, way out of line.
"It's the only language these kids seem to understand," as I've seen many who try to justify his behavior, is (no pun intended!) a wholesale cop-out. If an adult has to use the F word and the GD word in order to "communicate" with teens, then the adult is only kidding himself if he thinks those kids will respect him for it.