Dude was IDed by women as person in a fight. Policeman tries to question dude. Dude makes a break and 2 1/2 blocks later cop catches up to dude. Dude slows down, turns to face cop and reaches into his pocket. Not exactly an 'innocent bystander'.
and everyone ever ided by a woman on the street is actually a criminal? right. innocent until proven guilty is still the way our laws work, the cops can not circumvent that. the cops I work with do not use undue force, they have self control. that officer did not...when he slammed the man, he had turned and stopped. the officer did not respond in kind.
facts are a funny thing......bottom line is that they could NOT place him as one of the guys they were looking for and they had nothing criminal on him. he is, in fact, in the eyes of the law innocent....yet the cops inflicted deadly force. there are consequences to the use of force.
Not exactly an 'innocent bystander'.
If he is not "innocent" then he must be guilty of something. What crime, then, did he commit to justify bashing his head into a wall and nearly killing him?
There is one crime visible in that video. It's called felony assault, and possibly attempted homicide.