Dude, he didn’t shoot anyone. He (lawfully, from all appearances) arrested a juvi after giving her multiple opportunities to simply walk away.
Seriously, in what way did he over-react? He told various individuals to sit down (which is SOP when you’re trying to sort out who’s who at a disturbance call like this), and told some other individuals to “move along”. For whatever reason, he decided to arrest that one girl (we don’t know that reason — you’ve speculated, but that it — mere speculation), and when she resisted, he used the minimally necessary force to effect the arrest, near as I can tell.
Once the voice of sweet reason fails, what then? Just walk away and let events play out their course? That’s not what cops get paid for, but that’s the message that is getting sent this past year or so.
“Seriously, in what way did he over-react?”
Well the faceplant in the ground while he had a handful of her hair sprang to my attention.
Also he told her to leave and she was leaving then he went after her.
Sorry but when I was 14 had a cop been screaming at me that same way I have no idea how I would have acted. You know being a terrified kid and all.
She’s 14. There wasn’t any rioting just a pretty typical group of high school kids wearing bathing suits.
Sorry but the cop lost his temper and escalated the whole thing he was the one running around and screaming obscenities at people.
A typical high school English teacher deals with situations like that every day.
This wasn’t in the Hood. It was in suburbia there weren’t any gang coolers, no weapons, just a pissed off raving cop who lost his temper.
You notice the other two cops weren’t acting like that.