Well, you’ve put your finger on the question that the department is surely asking him this week. It’ll be interesting to see if they throw him under the bus, or not.
There’s no question that every action taken by the officer in the video is lawful, so it’s going to come down to “did he violate policy somehow”. And it’s always possible to show a policy violation, if that’s what the department wants to show, even if it’s nothing more than putting oneself in a poor tactical situation.
One thing we’re seeing with this incident, as with Ferguson, is the media viewing a small suburban department through the lens of big-city policing. A larger department would have probably deployed an airship to get a view of the situation before rolling the officers in all at once, along with a tactical plan to disperse the crowd before even making contact. Smaller departments have to make do with the resources available though.
I do find it fascinating that even on FR, there is so much uncritical acceptance of the MSM narrative.
oh! you do make a good point I probably have not made clear...
I am not sure if I see anything the officer did that was UNLAWFUL for him to do, my only beef is the way he did it.
He lacks the skills to control himself in this situation.