r/HadToHurt • u/1Voice1Life • Nov 05 '17

Drunk fan slaps a cop

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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/Tin_Tin_Run Nov 05 '17

are you telling me that if i walk up and slap a police officer he wont just take it? no fucking way dude i dont believe it.

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u/[deleted] Nov 05 '17

I'm in the middle here. I don't think he really needed to do that, but it's hard to feel bad for someone getting fucked up for attacking a cop.

If I slapped a cop, I'd eat the pavement and maybe lose some teeth.