You mean he didn't lunge at the police? He stood there with his arms crossed when the cop starts hitting him? And yes we do know what preceeded it. Nothing. England might have been rude but he made NO threatening moves that deserved that response. You can keep making excuses but you can't change what the video shows. And the cop needed probable cause for ordering him to the ground. More cause than being asked questions that he didn't like.
Why was he still standing when he admitted that he was told to get on the ground?
How about shock. I would have been stunned if treated that way for asking questions. In post 139 I said : When I asked at the Tallahassee airport, I got a polite answer. I was told that some airports don't enforce no lighters but they chose too. The TSA worker even allowed me to give the lighter to my sister. She was a nice lady.
We aren't going to change one anothers opinion. I hope the rest of your evening is a good one.
I saw the video and all I saw was a figure standing behind a piece of equipment. I could not see folded arms. You are very good at decoding video.
I know that he was told not to stand and he was standing. Resisting arrest. Case closed. He is not permitted to decide whether the order was a proper one. If it was not, he can pursue it in court. Once the order was made and he was disobeying it, he was a danger to himself and others.
I wonder if they took his BAL. I’d love to know.
But I want to warn you, lots of cop-haters go onto threads like this and facts come out that make them look...well, stupid. They don’t care, of course, they go on with their prejudices on other threads.