Ah, I was wondering how long it would take the State-worshipers to show up.
I don't really see a "BEATING" taking place here. Cop was not holding rasp with both hands and trying to either swing the wood for 315 yards or hit the fastball out of Wrigley Field.
So anything less doesn't constitute a beating? So you wouldn't mind someone doing it to you, if, after all, it
isn't a beating?
Actually, it's called an Asp.
in one hand and was hitting suspect where they are taught to hit suspects, mainly in the back of the legs or lower torso until suspects complies with demands. Cop wasn't even swinging that hard either. Hell, Cop hardly was exerting any force at all in those swings.
And so the bloody mouth came from where? And you can't tell where he's swinging. You're engaging in supposition.
Why did Cop have to pull rasp out in the first place?
A couple theories spring to mind. The more likely one is--being that it happened immediately after the victim told him to "shut up"--is that the cop thought something like, "How dare a mere
mundane insult my sanctified person? An @$$-kicking will teach this
citizen puke a lesson."
Now, all that's rather amplified. It probably took about a half-second and was more visceral than cerebral.
The other possibility that comes to mind is that prior to the video start, the cop was detaining him, or going to search him, or arrest him, or something like that, and told him to get out of the car, and he didn't want to. He resisted a bit, and maybe the cop gave him a second chance, to which he responded "Shut up." The cop figures he's given him all the opportunity to which he's entitled, and starts to extract him from the car, at which point, things go awry.
Now, that could certainly be the case, but we don't know it. Not only do we not have the preceding few seconds of video, we also don't have any report written by the cop.
When cops go to a domestic disturbance, and there's been some fisticuffs, and the husband and wife each look at each other and say, "He/She started it," what are the cops going to do? They're going to look for physical evidence. She's got some marks on her neck where it appears he grabbed her, and there are no marks on him. Guess which one's going to be a guest of the city or county that night.
That's kind of what we have here; we have no report filed by the cop, which he was required to do, and the only other evidence we have is the video. And now that this has blown up in his face, no report he files at this point will have any credibility. So the only thing we
know is that the assault victim told the cop to shut up, and the cop appears to administer some street justice.
If you watch the video, you can clearly see Cop jerking his legs away from the suspect a couple of times. Of course, dingbat who took this video did not keep the camera aimed down to show the suspect grabbing Cops legs.
That's not clear at all, though it is clear that the guy shooting the video was a dingleberry.
If the cop
was reacting to his ankles being grabbed, it's reminiscent of another police brutality feature that's become so common. A cop issues some command (that probably exceeds his authority), and the citizen doesn't comply in .0674 of a second, so the cop pulls his Portable Electro Shock Torture device and zaps him, all the while yelling, "QUIT RESISTING! COMPLY WITH MY COMMANDS AND PUT YOUR HANDS BEHIND YOUR BACK!" Which the victim can't do because the electricity is coursing through his body, so the cop feels justified to zap him some more, which happened in Baltimore, where a decorated veteran recently back from the sandbox was murdered by the cops in just such a manner.
But in this case, we know that the victim told the cop to shut up, and it appears that the cop, offended, assaulted him. Perhaps in shock and fear, or maybe pain, or maybe cowering, he grabs the cop's ankles.
Cop did NOTHING wrong, period.
Point of law: You can't start a fight and then claim self-defense later. All the evidence that we have--again, who's fault is that?--could indicate that the cop was offended at being insulted and reacted violently. He can't now claim, "Well, the guy was grabbing my ankles, so I did what I had to do."
It reminds me of another video from years ago on which a guy tells his buddies to video him flipping off a cop. So the camera rolls (I think this was before cell phones with cameras were common), and the prankster gives the cop a very dramatic double bird. The cop pulls his stick and beats the crap out of the kid. I think that was a phony, just for laughs, maybe not even a real cop. But the point is, a cop has to have a thick skin. He doesn't get to react emotionally when he's insulted or disrespected. First, society, choosing to have cops, hires him, so he belongs to us, not the other way around. It's that whole you-public-servant, me-public thing. Second, we give him a gun and other tools of violence, so he's expected to be able to stay calm.
I can call
him a $#!+ for brains, or a dumb @$$, and though he may disapprove and even glare at me, he has no other recourse. Same in this instance. If he doesn't like being told to shut up, too d*** bad. If he can't take that, in the words of Patrick Swayze, there's always barber college.
When I was a guard in Section 8 housing complexes, we made sure the people we hired had thick skins. They were questioned to make sure they did, and so they understood that they had to control themselves even in the face of less-than-physical abuse. We were interviewing a black guy, and I asked him straight out, "What would you do if someone called you a (N-word)?" We had to be sure he wouldn't shoot someone. Cops, having more power, have to be held to an even higher standard.
You know what makes this "sensational"???? The narration of the video, that's all. You have a dingbat going "oh my gosh - oh my gosh" along with her guy friend saying "keep the camera down" while videoing Cop giving a drunken suspect a couple of love taps to get him under control.
While the action happened, I found myself wondering what kind of report he was going to write. "Subject charged me in an aggressive manner and I had to defend myself." Ooops, guess you didn't see the video camera.
You know what's dramatic? That the citizens with the camera felt they needed to hide the camera so the cop wouldn't see it and turn his rage on them.
Now make nice!!