If you think that an officer making wiser cracks while deploying his firearm to effect an arrest constitutes aggravated battery, then perhaps it is YOU who should investigate the elements of that offense in the state of VA AND the statutes governing use of force by a peace officer in that state. I am certain that their conduct, while it may merit firing because of a violation of police regulations does NOT constitute a criminal action subject to legal prosecution.
Please reserve your outrage for the perpetrators of this incident, and not me for expressing my opinion about it. I can assure you that any use of force in my successful career was legally and morally justified. I also know how a good army officer is supposed to comport himself in public too, and this man did not in this instance.
Make that aggravated assault OR battery.
Alright fine. So it should be legal for cops (and then I assume anyone) to point a gun at them and say something like ‘Yeah, you better be worried. jk!’
Again, I don’t care if the victim driver here was slow or talking back. You don’t just go off and point a gun and start joking (didn’t sound like a joke at all to me) that they’re going to kill them.
Again, you sound like a very sick and evil person. This is agg assault with a deadly weapon, a felony 2 where I’m from and he deserves to be prosecuted. This is one of the worst bad cop cases I’ve seen outside of when they just shoot first. This time they only pepper sprayed, so I guess he was lucky eh?