“That is, he needed to be brought under their total physical control, without any way for him to regain the upper hand on them or effectively resist them or flee.”
I take it that you think everyone should be beaten up before they put the handcuffs on since that is the only way to ensure that the cops have the upper hand?
I don’t have much longer to write tonight, but once again, I never said or suggested that.
In fact, I’ve said just the opposite. I said this would clearly be unjustified in a case where he was a loiterer refusing to leave, or even in a much more serious case, as long as the suspect actually surrendered properly.
Please, if you want to discuss things, actually stick to what the person is saying.
It is only that he did a very dangerous, highly antisocial thing, something that was also resisting arrest, and that he still needed to be physically arrested, that I see a rationale for what the troopers did.