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.
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
Little chunks of sanity in this thread under the torrent of "Americans are bootlickers" and "If I was in that situation I would have reacted respectfully and used counseling techniques and a judo hold that I learned in 5th grade" comments. Reddit is retarded
Nah we're just holding an officer of the law to a higher standard because you know he's a cop. There is no reason he had to punch her at all. It was excessive force 100%. He obviously was retaliating out of anger and not to restrain her further. I hope he got in trouble for this.
He was assaulted, plain and simple. He's a fucking cop, it's his job to stop these kinds of people so no one gets hurt including himself. Sorry but you can't just assault cops and expect to be calmly sat down and apprehended in ANY country.
If he threw two punches would he be justified? what about three? what if he broke her teeth out? still justified? not enough? what if he took her gun out and shot her right there? are we at the level of satisfied violence? If you don't see the point I'm trying to make then I'll spell it out for you.
There's a level of response that some people find justifiable but the reason this story is hitting the news is because most people don't think you need 4 officers to carry and 1 officer to throw punches in order to restrain a person. It's the officers job to prevent people from getting hurt so I really don't understand how you think there was no better option than escalating the violence? It honestly baffles me.
Your point sucks because that didn't happen. They were removing a belligerent drunk, she became violent, he stopped the violence (and defended himself!) with a single clean punch then continued on to detain her as normal. He didn't throw her on the ground, he didn't beat her to a pulp, he didn't use a weapon, he didn't shoot anybody. He stopped the violence and removed her from the situation. This is WHAT COPS DO, people, if they've been called into a situation like this they shut it down. If it had been more blows from the cop after the woman was clearly incapacitated I might agree with you but he put an end to the ASSAULT ON A POLICE OFFICER that she was committing and carried on.
Looks like we will just have to agree to disagree. It seems absurd to me that someone who professionally trained to de-escalate a situation felt this was the appropriate response. While I of course disagree with how she is acting as others have said let the law handle her.
What scares me is how reddit sees the way this woman is behaving, clearly she has gone through and will continue to go through life thinking she can get away with whatever she wants, and when she finds out there's consequences to her actions this website automatically sympathizes with her. It scares me, because this is the way the world is headed, and I think it's going to cause a lot of psychological fuckery for the fairer half of the poipulation.
You guys really have to look at police training and expand your thought process past “the cop is obviously always wrong.” Should he have let her continue to hit him? Should they have stopped pushed her face into the ground to cuff her? It’s like people don’t realize that you need control over someone who is acting belligerent one way or the other for your and others safety.
They were getting her to a place where they could. You wanna bend down to cuff someone in a crowd of people who you don’t know if they’re as hostile as she is? Did she assault another fan before that? Was there anyone else being restrained? And it was one punch to the face, he didn’t beat her.
I don't think that's how police are trained lol. "Remember, if a drunk person slaps you in the face, DON'T hit them back. Kindly ask them to stop. If that doesn't work see if you can gently grab their hands. Remember, don't do it to hard or you may leave a bruise! A judge will take care of it later."
When you're that drunk you can't reason very well. She can't put together "dudes restraining me this is terrifying, but also I'm being an asshole, also they are cops just doing their jobs, but I have an animal need to fight back, but I'll get an assault charge, they definitely won't PUNCH me, la la la..."
She's fucking bombed and doing dumb shit. She deserves charges but not a potentially life-ruining or ending head injury.
the police officer is supposed to use NECESSARY FORCE to subdue the suspect. how is this so difficult to understand? the cop can't go full robocop because his feelings were hurt. but he also doesn't have to take it. cuff her, charge her, end of story. stop justifying a police state.
What she did and what he did were clearly on different levels. She has no idea what the fuck is going on and she slapped the guy who is forcibly carrying her away from her friends on the back of the head. He reacted emotionally and punched her so hard her head snapped back, which could have caused major damage. He wasn't concerned with anyone's safety, he was mad and wanted payback.
Bullshit, can we not apply common sense to anything anymore? He was in no danger of injury from a slow motion slap, whereas he probably gave her a concussion immediately. Why not grab her arm just as easily in reach?
I think the problem comes from the fact that that slap didn't not hurt and frankly he should be able to take it and not act like a punk bitch. Life isn't that serious. We've all been shitty drunk and done dumb shit, I think the greatest thing cops needs is empathy and mercy. Should be trying to solve problems not cause em. The dudes a bitch.
Are you thinking of criminal actions? I suspect that she will retain a lawyer for a civil action against Miami-Dade PD, and if this video is accurate, she will probably get a few dollars for that lawyer.
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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.