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.
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.
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.
She was only able to slap him because they were treating her nicer than they would have treated a man, or a black woman. Both would have been restrained and handcuffed before bring escorted
Three of the four officers are black. So you’re saying black officers would’ve treated a black offender worse than they’ve treated the white offender? Bullshit. Stop playing race cards where they don’t belong.
Edit: three of the five officers are black (didn’t see the other white officer behind her at first). One of those black officers is a female. This is neither a race nor gender issue.
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u/toeofcamell Nov 05 '17
Dude with the Bud Light was like, oooh snap, don't smack cops, got it