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.
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.
Yes, this is how it works. They are not there for a fair Friday night fight at the bar. They have the right to go home at the end of the day a whole person. Their job is not to fight, but to end them quickly and expeditiously with whatever force is necessary. This officer ended the fight. He prevented further assault on his person. We will never know what her next action would be, maybe gouging of eyes, maybe throwing up and falling asleep, but we do know that the officer didn’t have to put up with her bullshit after he took appropriate action. Unless someone held her down and forced this woman to get drunk, she is responsible for every action she takes when drunk. She received justice and hopefully will be charged with assaulting a police officer as well.
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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.