Hence, a Mexican standoff. If he starts suing, they start charging. If he lets it go, they let it go.
Whether he's right or wrong, when a cop says "Down on the ground," you had better be on the ground.
You can prove your rightness later.
The last that I heard, cops can’t beat you, break ribs and taze you for being annoying. Did you bother viewing the tapes in the news report in post 16?
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’!.