Because we are putting ourselves in the shoes of the arresting officer.
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So it's okay to assume blind negatives about the girl but we should not assume negatives about the cop.
You assume she refused to show her ID. You don't know that. Perhaps she did, or perhaps the cop is just as *******. Or perhaps it was something else entirely. All you can go on is what is seen in the video, and from what I see punching the girl was not necessary or smart.
You may think that, but you aren't. You're putting yourself in completely different situations that would warrant a strong physical reaction. And you are implying that if you don't think that the cop was correct for punching the girl, then you are in favor of criminal anarchy.
Ahhh, the good old "Well this is what I'D do" thing.
Guess what, you haven't got a damn clue what you'd do. It's very easy to talk about what you'd do in some sort of situation like that from your comfy house. It's also generally very different from what would actually happen in reality.
Walsh had attempted to stop a 19-year-old friend of Rosenthal's, Marilyn Ellen Levias, for jaywalking, when Rosenthal intervened.
In a clash caught on videotape, Rosenthal shoved Walsh, who responded by punching her in the face.
Mhm....It's not like he was "HEY COME HERE YOU STUPID BLACK ***** MWAHAHAHAAHAAA" and went Rodney King on her.
Also, this:
Ms. Rosenthal and Officer Walsh have been in every major media report in the country since their Monday confrontation. At my request, the two met today just to see if we could calm down a growing volatile situation. This is the first steps toward reconciliation and healing," said James Kelly, president and CEO of the Urban League of Metropolitan Seattle.
According to Kelly, Rosenthal wanted to apologize directly to the officer and Walsh was accepting of her apology.
You think if the girl had a leg to stand on, she would have apologized? No. She would have gotten a shark of an attorney and sued the city.
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I already said that while he acted wrongly, he was well within his rights hitting her.
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How does "stopping someone for Jaywalking" turn in to "choke slamming them onto the hood of a car"?
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Mhm. "What I would have done" and "Ineffective force" coincide with one another.
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it says a lot about the training of the police when they are unable to physically restrain a single teenage girl or defuse a couple of angry individuals...
How does stopping someone for speeding, then finding yourself staring down the barrel of an AK47 happen?
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All the ways you wish you could be, that's me. I look like you wanna look, I **** like you wanna ****, I am smart, capable, and most importantly, I am free in all the ways that you are not.
All the ways you wish you could be, that's me. I look like you wanna look, I **** like you wanna ****, I am smart, capable, and most importantly, I am free in all the ways that you are not.
How does that have any relevance to what I'm asking you? Are you saying that cops should treat everyone as if they secretly have a gun in their underwear?
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I can't help, when watching the vid, seeing the cop being a bit indecisive after he punched the first chick. The second (Blue top) was resisting, and he had many chances to turn her around, hold her on the hood of the car, and cuff her. It's like he was realizing what he has just did and was afraid to act again.
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It's relevant because the Seattle incident started out as a simple jaywalking stop.
In one of the vids I posted, a simple traffic stop turns into a shootout.
Point I am trying to make is shit happens.
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When resisting, isn't that what they're supposed to assume? That they could be in very real danger?
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