A little late, but you know I had to share my two cents!
I will let you be the judge on this one. My cousin (HPD) officer and I were having a heartfelt discussion this past weekend on the issue regarding the video below. Of course in true police fashion (I love you Angela) she was totally open on her opinion of not having a problem with the punch. Her reasoning was that if she was resisting arrest, and or attacking the officer, he has the right to defend himself in a situation where he felt threatened.
Fair enough...I would have to agree on this particular one, I mean, come on! How ghetto do you have to be, to get gangsta on a cop when he tries to issue a citation for jay walking?! Seriously? To me the lady was acting wild and uncontrollable, and I did indeed see the need for them to be subdued in one way or another. Sucks that is had to be the friend who was punched, but she should have listend to her man, and stayed out of it.
There I said it, sorry but it's the way I feel. My feelings are not for any racial reasons...before you go there...my reasons are based on the fact that if it were my husband or father and he was being attacked in such a way, I would have wanted him to take control of the situation. He was losing grounds and control of the situation, as you can clearly see as more and more people start coming up to "get involved." Was a punch necessary, I don't know, but it appeared nothing else was working. She still kept mouthing off until the very end.
If you act like an idiot, you should be treated like one JMO.
One more thing...yes dude, he was freaking serious! hahaha!!
What do you think? Maybe I will be lucky enough to get my cousin to chime in.
I will let you be the judge on this one. My cousin (HPD) officer and I were having a heartfelt discussion this past weekend on the issue regarding the video below. Of course in true police fashion (I love you Angela) she was totally open on her opinion of not having a problem with the punch. Her reasoning was that if she was resisting arrest, and or attacking the officer, he has the right to defend himself in a situation where he felt threatened.
Fair enough...I would have to agree on this particular one, I mean, come on! How ghetto do you have to be, to get gangsta on a cop when he tries to issue a citation for jay walking?! Seriously? To me the lady was acting wild and uncontrollable, and I did indeed see the need for them to be subdued in one way or another. Sucks that is had to be the friend who was punched, but she should have listend to her man, and stayed out of it.
There I said it, sorry but it's the way I feel. My feelings are not for any racial reasons...before you go there...my reasons are based on the fact that if it were my husband or father and he was being attacked in such a way, I would have wanted him to take control of the situation. He was losing grounds and control of the situation, as you can clearly see as more and more people start coming up to "get involved." Was a punch necessary, I don't know, but it appeared nothing else was working. She still kept mouthing off until the very end.
If you act like an idiot, you should be treated like one JMO.
One more thing...yes dude, he was freaking serious! hahaha!!
What do you think? Maybe I will be lucky enough to get my cousin to chime in.
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