> What could an old man say that could cause this? <
Nothing he could have said was worth laying hands on him. Nothing.
I watched the video, twice. It looks like the old guy touched one of the cops with his cell phone. Then he got shoved back, hard. Was the old guy acting stupidly? Probably. Did the cop overreact? Certainly.
For those who might disagree, suppose I get in a heated argument with some old guy. And he brushes my arm with his cell phone. That’s no threat to my safety, at all. Do I have the right to push him back, hard? There is a disparity of force, to my advantage. So I’d say no, I don’t have the right to push him back, hard.
It was hard to watch because of the sound of his head hitting the pavement.
The cop who did this was in the wrong. However, these cops have been at it for a week now. They are tired, angry, and in full tactical mode.
Watch it again.
He appears to be using his phone as a camera or some type of scanner. First one officer, then the other.
One suggestion was that he is trying to scan the officer’s radio frequency so they can be tracked.
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