From all info I gathered so far: He mistakenly thought he could bring in a soda bought AT the airport when he could not. TSA told him he was wrong and the supervisor told him she outranked him. He wanted to see military ID which makes sense.
In the video: You can see him talking to the officers. He does NOT have any threating posture towards them and is NOT raising his hands or making any gesturing moves.
The security tape out of sight is to grainy to ‘really’ determine what happened for sure. However, the cop does seem to spin around and start beating him out of the blue.
Now, he might have said something to start it but it still is unnecessary force. The guy complied with all orders given to that point.
And that he hasn’t been charged with anything so far should tell us ‘something’!.
Really? I think she was probably being snarky to his "Do you know who I am?" type of behavior. The fact is, in the civilian airport, she does outrank him.
I read the article with a cynical eye and I was picking out little things in his story, but what really killed his case is that he admitted to being told to get on the ground and admitted to not being on the ground later. The only thing that's keeping him from having a criminal record is that the cops went WAY overboard and weren't satisfied just to handcuff him and let him stew in a corner of the airport.