That was OP's point. That doesn't happen in a lot of countries Western Europe or East Asia, e.g. Japan. You should be detained, not injured by police acting as their own judge, jury and executioners (Or teeth knocker-outers)
Edit: I should have made it clear I meant that it doesn't happen in a lot of countries with a similar socioeconomic situation to the US. Sure if you want to count war-torn countries, countries with dictators or violent regimes then yeah, it does happen in a lot of other countries. Kind of sad we have to compare American policing to those places though, right?
So the officer here holding this girl's leg should allow her to keep slapping him? Drop the leg to restrain her arm? I think he put her is a position where they could get her out of the stands and properly restrain her without her continuing to strike him. I agree that police officers shouldn't hit people in "revenge" but I think OP misrepresented his action as revenge. I see it as incapacitating an aggressive perp while attempting to control her. Pepper spray and tasers are also used to this end.
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u/panicky_in_the_uk Nov 05 '17
I'd expect that cop to grab my arm and restrain me so I wouldn't be able to hit him again.
Did she deserve that? Yes.
Does that make it ok? No.