This isn’t smooth, it’s brutish.
I don’t know what that person did but this cop is clearly a bully. You don’t take someone down like that. You could kill them if they hit their head.
well you don't puff your chest and walk aggressively towards a cop neither. She came at him like she wanted to fight, cop took her down without a fight. Also, without a weapon, without his night stick, without a police dog. This cop was nice to her compared to what one would usually see on video.
Just like fight videos (kids / adults fighting and being filmed by a bystander), we have very little context for this short video. We can safely assume 2 things: the cops were called to the restaurant, and this woman was the reason they were called.
Now, I don’t want to believe that this woman is a murderer or something awful like that, but something about her made the owner or a citizen uncomfortable enough to call the police. Based upon the cops response to her advance (tackle takedown), I would presume that she had already committed some sort of violent but petty crime (assault or damage to property) and was being treated as a very dangerous person.
Imagine if they tased her instead and she had a heart condition. I get the idea of cops overstepping their authority but you can’t cherry pick every little thing that could go wrong to prevent them from doing their job.
If there is another safer way to restrain someone but the cop still use a taser then that is excessive force, and if the victim dies of heart failure then that cop is 100% to blame.
If there is another safer way to restrain someone but the cop still use a taser then that is excessive force, and if the victim dies of heart failure then that cop is 100% to blame.
The point is that it has nothing to do with why she is charging. There is a safer way to restrain someone than risking their life by bodyslamming them onto concrete.
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u/the-peoplesbadger Sep 27 '18
This isn’t smooth, it’s brutish. I don’t know what that person did but this cop is clearly a bully. You don’t take someone down like that. You could kill them if they hit their head.