r/HadToHurt • u/1Voice1Life • Nov 05 '17
Drunk fan slaps a cop
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u/toeofcamell Nov 05 '17
Dude with the Bud Light was like, oooh snap, don't smack cops, got it
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u/harborwolf Nov 05 '17
He already knew that lesson, but appreciated the 'real world' reinforcement.
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u/alexnader Nov 05 '17
Bud Light
These ad campaigns are getting out of hand. First Pepsi, now this. When will this madness end?
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u/Greatmambojambo Nov 05 '17 edited Nov 05 '17
I don’t know why people are celebrating this. A cop‘s job isn’t to retaliate against people. They’re supposed to contain people and enforce the rules, not to punch people in revenge. American cops are trained to use violence in any scenario no matter how big the actual threat is and I don’t think that’s good.
Edit: Many people arguing that if you slap a cop, you should definitely expect police brutality. Definitely not. You should expect consequences, not to be knocked the fuck out. You should expect the cop to handle this situation professionally, not to get into a brawl with a drunken woman. You should expect the cop to be the moral authority he‘s supposed to be, not to get on the level of a drunken person. You should expect the cop to make reasonable use of force to achieve his goal, not to deal out full force blows to the face in revenge for a slap. You should expect the cop to de-escalate the situation, not to turn up the violence. It’s worrisome how many people seem to just accept excessive and unreasonable use of violence, as long it’s a cop doing it.
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u/we_are_monsters Nov 05 '17 edited Nov 05 '17
I’m not sure people are celebrating it so much as they are saying “well what the fuck did you expect when you hit a cop?”
Edit: By saying it should be expected, I’m not defending his actions as reasonable or holding them up as good policing practice. I think American police culture is too quick to resort to violence and is horrible at de-escalating situations. But, that all goes into why I said it should be expected. I’m not saying it should be accepted or condoned, only that I fully expect an American cop to hit you back if you hit them.
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u/panicky_in_the_uk Nov 05 '17
“well what the fuck did you expect when you hit a cop?”
I'd expect that cop to grab my arm and restrain me so I wouldn't be able to hit him again.
Did she deserve that? Yes.
Does that make it ok? No.
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u/LOL_BUTTS_ Nov 05 '17
I would like for the cop to grab my arm and restrain me so I wouldn't be able to hit them again.
I would expect to get some teeth knocked out.
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u/Nieunwol Nov 05 '17 edited Nov 05 '17
That was OP's point. That doesn't happen in a
lot of countriesWestern Europe or East Asia, e.g. Japan. You should be detained, not injured by police acting as their own judge, jury and executioners (Or teeth knocker-outers)Edit: I should have made it clear I meant that it doesn't happen in a lot of countries with a similar socioeconomic situation to the US. Sure if you want to count war-torn countries, countries with dictators or violent regimes then yeah, it does happen in a lot of other countries. Kind of sad we have to compare American policing to those places though, right?
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That's weird, I expect that a society should hold its law enforcement to a higher standard.
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u/doughboy192000 Nov 05 '17
She obviously wasn't complying so they had to carry her... then she hits a cop who was nice enough to carry her out instead of forcefully restraining her on the stairs. So no... fuck this drunk ass
I replied to the wrong person but yeah.
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u/polskleforgeron Nov 05 '17
You slap a cop, justice is supposed to punish you. Not the cop. Especially when it's obvious she's not a threat.
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Nov 05 '17 edited Nov 05 '17
She was being drunk and belligerent and deserved to spend the evening in the drunk tank.
Dude needs better self control if he's gonna wear a gun and badge, that simple. How long til he kills someone for pissing him off and disrespecting his authoritah?
My mom was a 50-something-belligerent drunk who had the cops called on her. [Edit: for context since this is blowing up: she was drunk and walked to the corner store. She got in a verbal altercation with someone who had parked in the handicap spot. That person wanted to make sure she made it home safe, so he followed her home. She called the police to report a strange man following her home. He had already called the police because he was concerned she wouldn't make it home safely. End edit] She could not have hurt a fly, she just didn't have the muscle mass. They beat the fuck out of her. I still remember the pics of her bruises, I thought she literally had necrosis she was so dark purple. They broke bones.
My mom almost certainly started it. She almost certainly said something she shouldn't have.
She didn't deserve to get beaten half to death.
Fuck america's police.
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u/Metro42014 Nov 05 '17
Ex-fucking-actly!
I think we need to pay cops more, and give them more vacation and trianing (and yes, I'll pay more in taxes for this), because their jobs are fucking hard. And I don't wantn them working when they're super stressed out.
They need to be above beating people up to get them to comply, and absolutely above retaliation, which should be treated as a new crime IMHO.
Just because you're an asshole to cops (up to and including some physical abuse), they should have the training and tools to be able to take you into custody without physical harm caused by them.
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u/PMmeYOURnudesGIRL_ Nov 05 '17
Half of the reason it’s a problem at all is a lack of training IMHO. You can’t expect the officer to de escalate a situation if you’ve never given them the training to do so. Same goes for appropriate use of force. Most of it comes down to what you can’t do when it should be why you can’t do certain things and what you should do instead. I don’t know why we’ve allowed this to become such a problem...
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u/BlastedBasted Nov 05 '17
I would expect the cop to have some restraint. Seems like we have given up on expecting American cops to be calm and level headed and assess the situation. She is just a drink girl, nothing more
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u/therinlahhan Nov 05 '17
Actually now she is a criminal who assaulted a police officer. She was just a drunk girl up until the time that she hit him, though.
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No, that's not how that works. She was not in a good state and needed to be evicted. So, it's the police's job to make sure they evict her in such a way as to not be a danger to herself, them or the people around her. Lifting her up and giving her free reign with her arms is not the way to go about it. They're not protecting anyone that way. The punch wasn't cool, because the police allowed the slap to happen in the first place.
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u/Greatmambojambo Nov 05 '17
That still doesn’t justify his actions. If you sign up to be a cop, you definitely have to expect to be in a scenario like this and you should resolve it professionally. There’s absolutely no justification for that punch, the cop should actually face consequences for unnecessary and excessive use of violence. You should expect consequences, but not to be knocked out in retaliation by a cop if you drunkenly slap hin (if they did their job right she wouldn’t have been able to do so in the first place) while you’re already contained by 4 other cops. You should expect the cop to act like the grown up, like the moral authority they’re supposed to be, not to get into a brawl with a drunken woman and punch her in the face with full force because „I‘m a cop“
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u/savage_engineer Nov 05 '17
You are correct. People have simply given up on holding cops to a reasonable standard.
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u/Idobro Nov 05 '17
I'm Canadian, not American. I do a little bouncing, worked security etc and I would be fucking shocked if saw a bouncer do this, to see a cop do it is disgusting.
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u/Our_GloriousLeader Nov 05 '17
American cops are trained to use violence in any scenario no matter how big the actual threat is and I don’t think that’s good.
Yep. I've no idea how this is considered acceptable.
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Yeah I mean replace this situation with a teacher. I have been kicked, bit and punched before. I am not allowed under any circumstances to fight back, unless it is truly a life threatening situation. Even then, I'd have to use the minimum force necessary to subdue that student. Why do cops get more leeway than me? And... why do they seem to have a hard-on for harming people? I don't want to hurt my students, even if they hurt me. Because I am a well-adjusted, professional adult.
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u/thehunter699 Nov 05 '17
Pretty much. In Australia ever since the massive corruption scandal a little while ago cops are held to the highest standard. Doing what that cop did would get them put on leave.
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Nov 05 '17 edited Nov 06 '17
How can she slap?
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u/Greatmambojambo Nov 05 '17
Absolutely. You should expect consequences, not to be knocked the fuck out because „I‘m a cop. I can.“
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u/DominoNo- Nov 05 '17
De-escalation of conflicts isn't something American cops are known for.
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u/ssigea Nov 05 '17
The slap was to his respect and hence the retaliation. American cops are a lot about power distance equations unlike say Scandinavian cops who are about equanimity and being the adult in a confrontation
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u/Pacify_ Nov 05 '17
The real thing thats bizzare is how many Americans in this thread are defending it.
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u/DanjuroV Nov 05 '17
You misunderstand. They feel it's right because they would have hit her too if they were in the cop's shoes.
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u/RefGent Nov 05 '17
This is exactly it. They want to feel justified about possibly doing it themselves, because they would. It doesn't matter to them whether it's right or wrong, they just want to feel like what they want to do isn't wrong.
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u/willmaster123 Nov 05 '17
The way cops in America are trained is to show maximum response to even the smallest threats
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u/ClockworkCats Nov 05 '17
She deserved it though, I don't know why people are angry. It brings me joy to see her get some fucking payback for acting like a total bratty bitch.
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u/kunai-face Nov 05 '17
Why didn't they cuff or ziptie her? I'm not a police officer but I think crowdsurfing is kind of an inefficient mode of expulsion.
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u/blackflag209 Nov 05 '17
She was holding onto other people. Much easier to get her out of the crowd then to cuff without putting other people at risk of getting hurt if she started resisting.
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They couldn't even drag her so they were forced to carry her. Pretty hard to ziptie a rowdy drunk idiot.
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u/CjPsychosis Nov 05 '17
Former cop here, the reason they removed her from the crowd first is you don't know the intentions of the crowd. Its very possibly one drunk rowdy fan can get the rest of them worked up and then you have the possibility of getting swamped by drunken idiots while trying to get cuffs on her. So you pick her up and get her outta the crowd then affect the arrest. That stiff jab wasn't necessary though. That smack was more insulting than dangerous but when your keyed up sometimes reflexes kick in. Most people that don't have any sort of self defense training don't understand that a lot of that is reflexive. We were trained that once a blow lands to respond with overwhelming force to end the conflict immediately. The longer it goes on the higher the chance of injury so we trained to end it quickly and decisively. Seems that button got pressed there but he still shoulda caught himself on that one. Fortunately stiff jabs like that usually just stun a person more than do actual damage so most likely all she got was a nice bruise for her stupidity.
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u/pinkycatcher Nov 05 '17
You call it a stiff jab, but that just seems like a nice way to say "I punched her in the face because I got heated"
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u/LokisDawn Nov 06 '17
He punched her in the face because he got punched in the face by her.
I can't help but think people would be less likely to jump to this drunks side if it was a man bitchslapping a policewoman. Maybe it's just my own preconceived notions.
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u/TheHaleStorm Nov 05 '17
Try to subdue and restrain this POS in a crowd of people, or just get her lousy ass out of there away from other people as fast as possible.
You are seriously asking that? She would have been swinging at other fans around her if she was not surrounded by cops.
Cuffing her in her seat would be almost as stupid as letting this idiot out in public.
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u/cunninglinguist81 Nov 05 '17
Everybody in here talking about police brutality, but no one's complimenting the cop at the back for a nice save - he adjusted that carry when she went limp and kept walking in one smooth motion.
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u/Grims1143 Nov 05 '17
To play devils advocate, if this was a female cop and a male drunk person, we would be okay with it?
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Buzzfood would probably have an article on it titled " YASSS why this officer is queen"
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u/ethrael237 Nov 05 '17
To me, it would depend on the force balance. If he was a weak guy drunk-slapping a strong female police officer, and her response was to knock him out with a punch, I would still see it as disproportionate.
But actions are not only evaluated in isolation. We consider the societal context. Most physical violence is from men against women (because men are usually more physically strong), so we try to disinicentivize that violence. A way to do it is by condemning any violence from man against woman, and celebrate any situation when woman stands up for herself physically. Not strictly right, though.
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u/scoobydoobeydoo Nov 05 '17
Obviously.
Women have the privilege of hitting without being hit, and daring to hit back makes you a sexist monster.
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u/aymama Nov 05 '17
She ded
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u/philblock Nov 05 '17
Now if the cop was white and the girl was black what would happen if this video was uploaded.
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u/binarydaaku Nov 05 '17
Assholes are beyond cast creed color and nationality
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Nov 05 '17
The same thing... Still a cop using excessive force on a person who is already restrained.
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u/Honztastic Nov 05 '17
What, you don't like your cops to retaliate out of anger?
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u/Snap10a Nov 05 '17
You aren’t restrained if you’re able to slap cops.
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u/rym5 Nov 05 '17
So let's just knock her out while carrying her that's a good idea
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u/leshake Nov 05 '17
Cops are allowed to punch people to gain compliance if they don't have any other good alternatives. He isn't going to taser her and accidentally miss and hit his friends or a bystander.
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u/Nlyles2 Nov 05 '17 edited Nov 05 '17
Now what would happen if we didn't try to race bait every conversation?
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So you’d admit that people would lose their shit.
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It's just sad because people are doing just that even though it's not the other way around.
It's almost like it doesn't make a difference, but could you imagine if it was a man that hit a woman and she hit back? :P
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It would be all over the national news. Pro athletes everywhere would kneel for the national anthem. BLM demonstrations would take place. Etc. Etc.
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u/I_am_up_to_something Nov 05 '17
I mean, the woman was stupid for hitting a cop. The cop was also stupid though, someone else posted how he'd be fired for this in Sweden. I think he would've been fired if this had happened in a lot of countries in Europe. You really don't want someone like this guy on the police force.
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u/Pacify_ Nov 05 '17
He would at very least face serious repercussions in Australia.
Pretty sure only in America would this be ignored, at least as far as the western world goes.
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u/alexnader Nov 05 '17
Funny you should say that, this exact post is in another subreddit, and half the comments there are fervently defending his actions.
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u/Gandalfthefabulous Nov 05 '17 edited Nov 05 '17
This is the accurate scenario. Along with another person thinking they're witty by saying "play stupid games win stupid prizes."
...Also change the gender to male and you got yourself an execution.
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u/jared2580 Nov 05 '17
The problem to me here is his punch was just pay back for the slap. He could have prevented her from hitting him again just as easily without punching her in the face that hard. Sure, she deserved it, but it's not a cops job to dish out punishment like that.
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u/irishbosworth Nov 05 '17
Did she deserve it? Maybe she deserves an additional charge or something, but let's be honest, that cop reacted out of anger, not of any moral stance.
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u/Don_Julio_Acolyte Nov 05 '17
This is the real answer. The cop was not under any duress or wasn't defending himself from an attacker nor fearing for his life in any way. There were like 4 cops carrying this girl. He was well protected and completely outnumbered her. She drunkingly open hand smacks him and he retaliates with a close fist right to the face... Uhhh. Yeah that's fucked up. He isn't drunk so he has no excuse as to his disproportional retaliation. I would say the same thing if the drunk person was a dude. A drunk dude wildly swinging should be detained, not propped up on shoulders so his hands are free to keep swinging. These cops are idiots for how they didn't detain the girl and when she goes for a swing, they retaliate like animals.
Fuck these cops. I hope he sees charges.
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u/aPrudeAwakening Nov 05 '17
If Reddit is any guide to go by I think we all know he'll never see any punishment for this.
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Yeah, I think having her pay additional fine would be better for everyone.
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u/irishbosworth Nov 05 '17
Yeah, let the judge sort out the punishment, not the police.
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u/Matterbox Nov 05 '17
Agreed, she should have just been restrained more. They are not there to punish. Unlike Dredd.
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His punch was not a proportional response it was violence. That's why it site uneasy with me. A proportional response would be to restrain her hands. The guy is scum.
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Nov 05 '17 edited Nov 05 '17
Done the bouncing thing. Reasonable force rules apply there too.
Edit, and we had situations with sted heads where the response was call for backup, pin them down and restrain them instead of knock them the fuck out.
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u/catholic13 Nov 05 '17
I hate comments like this. You can't say the guy is scum off of a 10 second video. Did he make a scummy move, sure. But one bad move doesn't make a person scum.
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u/TonySu Nov 05 '17
You only need to fuck a goat for 10 seconds to be a goatfucker.
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u/nucleophilicfella Nov 05 '17
Anyone who punches a restrained person (who is both too drunk to hit hard and probably 200 pounds lighter) in retailation is scum.
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u/frivilouschimp Nov 05 '17
Just want to point out that's battery not assault.
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u/ShadowAssassinQueef Nov 05 '17
Every thread I swear. I wonder how many times I’ve said this. In some states assault would be correct. In New York State there is no battery charge.
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u/Drogalov Nov 05 '17
Yeah, I'm with you on this one. A cop should be restrained enough that if someone hits him, he doesn't juts hit back
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u/Daedalus_7777 Nov 05 '17
Drunk or not, that’s not cool. I used to work as a nightclub doorman and had this happen to me loads, especially by drunk girls; never once did I feel compelled to lay one on them. The guy is a small mountain, even the slightest tap from him would be excessive force - let alone a full blow to the chin. The guy clearly has issues.
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Yeah I worked as a bouncer for a strip club and the way they are restraining her seems weird to me.
I've never thought "Well, the best way to get this violent drunk out is to carry them on my shoulders."
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u/Rizzpooch Nov 05 '17 edited Nov 05 '17
Unfortunately the reality is that he knows if she makes an issue out of it he can just come back with a charge of assaulting an officer
Edit: In case it wasn't clear, yes that is in fact what happened. The commission of a crime should not give an officer carte blanche, however, to use excessive force. That's the whole reason police are called to deal with crime - to be dispassionate arbiters of justice for the aggrieved party; I understand that in the moment he needed to react, but he should be held to a standard of calmly dealing with the situation that is clearly not life-threatening to him and instead he chose to act out of anger knowing that he will be able to get away with it
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u/dblmjr_loser Nov 05 '17
Because that's what happened.
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u/Tin_Tin_Run Nov 05 '17
are you telling me that if i walk up and slap a police officer he wont just take it? no fucking way dude i dont believe it.
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u/Seekerofthelight Nov 05 '17
Jesus Christ that was brutal. He just straight up mashed the guys face in with a baton.
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u/MedRogue Nov 06 '17
That one was satisfying, the guy looked pissed and crazy.
Meanwhile, the chick was in an altered state of mind . . limp . . and obviously more likely to hurt herself than someone else.
One could prolly knock your teeth out, the other would prolly knock out her own . .
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u/4thAndLong Nov 05 '17
Don't assault a police officer. Pretty simple concept that seems to escape more people than it should.
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u/TrashPanda44 Nov 05 '17
I bet she thought twice about slapping him again after that. He shouldn’t have to take repeated abuse.
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u/KnockingDevil Nov 05 '17
How are all of you so in favour of the cop here? This is obvious use of excessive force, yeah no shit she shouldn't of hit him but that doesn't mean he just gets to smack her back. The police are meant to be above that kind of shit...
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I mean it sucks that police training in America is so god damned shit that people think that this is a "relatively ok" response and are justifying it by introducing BLM outrage as a talking point. Like what the fuck does that have to do with this?
Anyway, yes. Anywhere else, the girl would have been held down and restrained with handcuffs. Not clocked in the head so she's nice and quiet for the journey home.
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u/Buzz_Fed Nov 05 '17 edited Nov 05 '17
Anytime a cop assaults someone all these people come out of the woodwork to defend the cop and say shit like "she had it coming" or think they're clever with "play stupid games win stupid prizes"
Bunch of fucking bootlickers in here, seriously
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Nov 05 '17 edited Nov 05 '17
4 grown ass men should be able to restrain a single drunk woman without this level of violence. They should have handcuffed her and removed her like you would anyone who is obviously drunk and agitated.
It's ridiculous how ill trained and undisciplined police are but that's what happens when you let people with the mentality of children have power unsupervised.
Edit: I like how some people think they can just make up things about me like "You have never restrained someone before" and think that makes them right somehow. They don't know me or what I've done and I don't know why they would bother making blatantly false statements.
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u/27pH Nov 05 '17
I have worked as security at festivals. If someone is drunk and out of control, being enough people to handle them more or less like this is the safest option for everyone. Once they are outside the crowd, the person will usually calm down and we can talk to them about their behavior. I have never seen anyone handcuffed at a concert, but I am also not in the US so we don't carry anything besides a reflective vest or a security sweater.
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u/DepartureStall Nov 05 '17
You have never actually tried restraining an unwilling drunk person before.
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u/DstroyReddit Nov 05 '17
you are so right, people on here acting like they can restrain a ''drunk chick'' on their own like they are the fuckin mountain. Restraining someone who doesn't want to be restrained is REALLY REALLY hard no matter your level of training.
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u/BigLou101 Nov 05 '17
ITT: Grappling experts and people who browse reddit at work trying to make police work sound easy.
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u/somedave Nov 05 '17
That is a massive overreaction to what he must barely have noticed.
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u/DirtyPiss Nov 05 '17
He barely noticed the first hit. He definitely felt the second, looked like it might have hit his eye even.
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u/quadracer92 Nov 05 '17
If it was a white cop this would have been code red we're getting nuked tier riots
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u/daikiki Nov 05 '17
Christ. Cops don't get to hit people. They're peace officers. They can defend themselves. They can't slap people in retaliation. That's the price of being a cop. They can file charges, go to court, extract justice. Sue if they must, but they're still peace officers, and peace officers are the only people in civilized society who are allowed to use force against the populous, and only in circumstances that leave no other option. It's a grave responsibility that's taken far too lightly these days.
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u/ihaftapoop Nov 05 '17
They aren't peace officers anymore. They changed the name years ago. They are LEOs now. Law enforcement officers.
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u/alexnader Nov 05 '17
Funny, I don't remember which specific law being enforced here says you can go around cracking people's jaws off their face?
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is that another term for steroid driven psychopathic cunts? why yes I think it is.
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u/Xeno87 Nov 05 '17
What is this, a voice of reason in this thread?
In other countries, where officers have to go through 3 years of training instead of 3 weeks, such an action would've resulted in a court trial and the officers suspension until then.
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u/alexnader Nov 05 '17
officers suspension
Oh he'll get his well deserved paid vacation, just you wait.
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you know, if the police force was held as accountable as the public for their actions in the states, we would have a lot less of this bullshit to begin with.
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u/quinpon64337_x Nov 05 '17
nah some cops will fuck you up
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u/no2K7 Nov 05 '17 edited Nov 05 '17
Did no one noticed that it was 2 SLAPS, he didn't hit her for the first one, that was nothing, but the second slap was dangerous, it could have it his eyes, and those that have gotten hit in the nose know it's super frustrating.
That backhand hit to the face... watch it carefully.
Secondly, I'm assuming that guy was her SO, poor way to handle that situation honestly even if it wasn't.
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How's about being an adult and drinking responsibly so you don't ruin things for dozens of people around you? What ever happened to people being responsible for what happens to them? It's so lazy to blame the cop, he shouldn't even have to be doing this. The lady should be fined for the cost to the public for the resources she wasted.
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u/Dustyk3yboard Nov 05 '17
Everybody in this post is flipping the fuck out about him overreacting. My thought process is it took one punch to the face and she probably won’t act out like that ever again.
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I think it's unfair to expect people to not react when struck. It's a natural reaction There's an animal under the thin layer of civility. Thats bound to surface from time to time. The guy probably regretted hitting her almost straight away but the speed of that was like an automatic nervous response and hard to replace with a rational action in the tenth of a second it took. This video might be the wake up call she needs because if this is typical behaviour for her when drunk she'll get her self in worse trouble than this in the future.
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Don't hit anyone if you don't want to be hit back, especially a police officer of all people...
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u/JB_Big_Bear Nov 05 '17
If the cop were white and the girl were black then there would be a different consensus about this whole thing.
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u/Myphoneaccount9 Nov 05 '17
Thank god it was a black cop and white girl, otherwise this would be a national story that some how ended up involving Trump and white supremicists
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u/CheesusChrisp Nov 05 '17 edited Nov 05 '17
Uh no I’m still pretty pissed of that a big ass full grown man reared back and fucked up a small woman for a little drunken bitch slap on the top of the head. I guarantee I’m not the only one with common sense to see that shit ain’t right.
Edit: At one point I was trying to somewhat present arguments in a logical fashion in this thread. I’ve given that up now. You guys got black and white glasses on and it’s driving me fucking nuts.
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u/Plz_ShowBob_n_Vagene Nov 05 '17 edited Nov 05 '17
US cops are just bunch of cunts
Edit: it’s serve and protect but they just relish every opportunity to smash someone’s face in, pepper spray students on campus or riddle you with bullets.
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u/Nusent Nov 05 '17
Take your time and visit /r/good_cop_free_donut
Not all of them are cunts. Try not to focus on the negative... it sells.
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u/Game_of_Jobrones Nov 05 '17
If she was black and the cop was white there would be a very different conversation occurring.
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Nov 05 '17
At first I thought no big deal. Then I read many of the comments in this thread. Now I'm mad the cop didn't river dance on her face. Screw all of you people with your selective outrage bullshit.
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Nov 05 '17
Dude shouldn't be a cop...totally excessive force, she barely touched him.
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u/Com_BEPFA Nov 05 '17
While we all don't know the back story here this does seem very excessive.
An obviously drunk out of her mind young woman of pretty small build lashes out, hardly being able to hit the target inches away from her hand. So far, so bad. We all know people do stupid shit when they're drunk, but we all also know a civilized human won't become a (voluntary, I might add, don't DUI) murderer just because of alcohol in their blood. So this woman probably has a short fuse anyway and maybe a lack of respect for authority or police in general (what a rare sight these days...).
However, the cop has no business whatsoever hitting her back. None. He's an officer of the law and as such on duty is supposed to stand above petty feelings and revenge. He got hit, add that to her record for the charges later on. Sure she might have insulted you before and resisted whichever way but as a police officer you're supposed to be a professional (no matter how many examples of the opposite are out there). But that's not even the end of it, he doesn't hit her back, he serves her a full force hit right in the face. A sturdy, big adult male reacting to a slap by a woman with a full force hit. There's just no context where this would ever be appropriate. Even if we take the "totally pro feminism" approach and say "if a girl hits a guy he can hit her back, equality, yay," this is way out of bounds. That's just one vastly physically superior person assaulting the inferior one at full force. That's a no-go and I really hope the guy faces consequences for that, even some anger management classes or something like that. And I'm assuming that he deeply regrets his action in retrospect, otherwise he has no fucking right to be a police officer whatsoever.
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u/yourmansconnect Nov 05 '17
It always seems like cops have to one up the perp. In jersey I'd say 60% of cops here take steroids and have really short fuses. Like if you smack a cop your getting punched in the head. If you push a cop you're getting slammed into concrete. If you look like you reach for a gun, you're getting the whole clip.
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u/lock34 Nov 05 '17
So that thing everybody else is supposed to use, restraint and critical thinking, doesn't matter for that guy who is paid to use it.
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u/g2420hd Nov 05 '17
Not sure those are the best and brightest if that's their solution to removing a drunk woman.
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u/fucdat Nov 05 '17
Loved it. Why do girls think they can get away with hitting people, with no retaliation? I won't hit a woman, but I'll smack a bitch.
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u/tannerisBM Nov 06 '17
If the sexes were reversed nobody would be defending this drunk idiot who is ruining the game for people around her. Reddit is full of gross white-knights.
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Nov 05 '17
Bitch deserved it. If you cant handle your liquor, dont drink. Stupid bitch
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u/YourLocalMonarchist Nov 05 '17
"WHY ARE YOU HITTING BACK, YOU FASCIST FUCKING PIGS. I PAY YOUR SALARIES!!!"
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u/glasses88 Nov 05 '17
She played a stupid game....
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u/BigRedTomato Nov 05 '17
The stupid-games-stupid-prizes comment must be one of the most common comments on Reddit.
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u/Just_Parker Nov 05 '17
Hit people get hit back, regardless of sex, race, religion or national origin... that’s equality
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u/somedave Nov 05 '17
Hitting someone (who is restrained) back, 10 times as hard, when you are 2 times the weight and in a position of authority, is not equality.
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u/Kanderin Nov 05 '17
Except when you are a police officer and supposedly held to a code of conduct higher than throwing haymakers because a drunk girl slightly brushed your head.
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u/BellicoseBill Nov 05 '17
The main problem is that the cops are carrying her like she's Rudy at the end of the movie after the big game. Why not have two cops grab her arms and two grab her legs and carry her out fully restrained?
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u/Great_Smells Nov 05 '17
They dont send in six cops for a cuddly college girl. She was likely acting highly disorderly and everyone nearby probably wanted to smack her too.