r/HadToHurt Nov 05 '17

Drunk fan slaps a cop

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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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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/dangshnizzle Nov 05 '17

magnitude my friend