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/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