r/HadToHurt Nov 05 '17

Drunk fan slaps a cop

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u/[deleted] Nov 05 '17 edited Jul 20 '20

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u/[deleted] Nov 05 '17

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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u/[deleted] Nov 05 '17 edited May 02 '20

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u/[deleted] 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/Push_ Nov 05 '17

She's not a threat to you.

Yet she literally slapped him in the face. So he neutralized her. Bet she didn't hit him again.

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u/OffendedPotato Nov 05 '17

If they had done their job she wouldn't have been able to slap him.

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u/jroades26 Nov 05 '17

He shouldn't be charged. If he wasn't a cop what he did would be legal and self defense.

It's more about that the police should have higher standards (not legal standards) than citizens. He should be at best suspended and at worst dismissed from the force. We don't want different laws for cops and citizens. But we do want higher standards on the police force itself.

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u/travman064 Nov 05 '17

If that guy wasn’t a cop, he’d be arrested for punching out a girl while 3 of his friends restrained her.

There is absolutely no fucking way that this girl posed a threat to this cop, so self defence is out of the question. The punch was out of anger. It wasnt defence, it was a punishment.

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u/doctorfunkerton Nov 05 '17

Yeah I agree with that. Not sure if an assault/battery charge makes sense if she hits him first.

But it was clearly more of a retaliation than self defense situation.

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u/jroades26 Nov 05 '17

Agreed, but if someone hits you in the face, you don't want precedent that you'll be charged if you hit them back.

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u/[deleted] Nov 05 '17

If you just want to beat up drunk people, become a fucking bouncer or something.

And that's okay?

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u/doctorfunkerton Nov 05 '17

No, of course it's not, and most bouncers would even have more restraint and responsibility than this cop. My point is that it's much worse for a cop to be behaving like this.

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u/[deleted] Nov 05 '17

‘Technically the girl should too’

God you’re a bad person. You’re like an infestation rotting our core.

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u/doctorfunkerton Nov 05 '17

What? The girl slapped a police officer. Even though it wasn't hard, it's an easy case to make.

You shouldn't hit cops and cops shouldn't hit you.

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u/[deleted] Nov 05 '17

The girl is 100% in the wrong

The cop shouldn’t be punished

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u/doctorfunkerton Nov 05 '17

They were both in the wrong. Its a joke that people in this thread are trying to say that the cop was acting in self defense.

It was clearly a retaliation, not an act of self defense. Both should be punished.

It's just a stupid situation with stupid fucking people.

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u/throwaway246oh1 Nov 05 '17

“beat up” ...

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u/doctorfunkerton Nov 05 '17

Ok how about "punch drunk people in the face that are restrained and a third of your size"

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u/throwaway246oh1 Nov 05 '17

Ok I’m cool with that then!

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u/SAKUJ0 Nov 05 '17

I wish the punishment was proportional as well and we'd have someone that weighs three times his body weight have run his fist into his unprepared face like a train.

(I don't really, but yeah...)

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u/mikemaronnalasagna Nov 05 '17

OK internet lawyer