I’m with Wilderness Conservative I want to know what he said. What could an old man say that could cause this? If you notice the first two officers were stopping to talk to him but it the the officers in back that knocked him down and told the officers in front to move on.
When you’re young and stupid chances are you will be old and stupid.
It looks like they were moving in formation, meaning on their way to deal with some specific disturbance.
The leader of that group may have said
‘Keep Moving!’
The scene looks worse in retrospect because none of the officers stopped to render aid to the old fellow who got knocked off balance. As I stated before, that was mostly his fault for blocking the path of this moving group of police.
You don’t do that without expecting some level of push back.
Literal pushback in this case.
> 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.