I figured you might have been pulling one of these. :)

http://nomaltbytrack.org/atv_wheels_off.jpg

Well regardless of how you interpret the intent of his grasp/punch. She had her hand on him(grabbing up around the neck) prior to that happening.

In my opinion, in potentially high stress or violent situations like that, physical contact is the line that just can't be crossed.

I know most won't agree with me, but it's also why I don't blame Ron Artest, or Legarette Blount for reacting the way they did.

He went to slap her, and he succeeded. It's the same from both videos.


Bullshit. In fact, if that wasn't a cop, almost everyone on this board would be calling that guy a pussy for doing that to a woman.

This actually hurts your position pretty irreparably. If the police officer was working at the restaurant at the time, then he was acting on behalf of the restaurant. As such, the moment he asked her to leave and she refused, she was trespassing.

I'm the first person to go crazy against an abuse of power, but the officers were in the right here. I don't even see how this is an issue.

If he weren't a cop, he'd be an asshole for trying to arrest someone. WTF are you talking about? His being a cop is a pretty important piece of the story.

:spock: Are we watching the same videos? I've watched it probably 5 times now, and it didn't even look like he made contact... Even though it's irrelevant, because she put her hands on him first in an aggressive manor.



Well yeah, why the **** would a civilian be trying to detain her friend? This argument asinine.

That was not "excessive force" on the cop's part. She's fortunate that she didn't receive a much more forceful response to her foolish actions. It'd be a crime if that cop gets any action taken against him. And I certainly hope that her and any other litigants lose their case and have to pay the Police Department's legal bill if this goes to trial. Crazy. That said, the whole dress and handcuffs visual was kind of hot. Angry sex with that fiery little habanero might worth a few bruises. Throw in some maple syrup and a Stormtrooper uniform and you've got yourself a party. Yum.

The same bunch of guys on the same board who wouldn't have interfered in the McDonald's beat down because you don't know what kind of weapon those chicks were packing. Except the cop doesn't have a choice, they have to get involved.

Read the post I was responding to again. He wasn't just talking about cops. He was generalizing

Physical contact is the line that just can't be crossed? So if he's in a high stress situation facing off with some guy, and his girl, or some other third party, puts a gentle restraining hand on his shoulder and tells him to just walk away, they deserve any ass kicking he gives them?

His argument was idiotic.

stfu dude. no, you dont put your hands on a cop, but a cop shouldnt be allowed to hit a girl in the face, regardless, there was another cop standing right there that should have restrained the girl, if when she started hitting him, shouldnt have been hit in the face.

its annoying to see all these cops doing this just because they can

ROFL

A gentle restraining hand on his shoulder? Tells the cop to just walk away? That's what you saw in the videos?

GTFO......

To say that was a "Gentle restraining hand" shows your bias rather well...

That's not brutality.

It took everything that big fat POS had even with his friends assitance to detain that little girl for touching him, haymaker and all. She isn't even hurt. Probably told him to bite her on the way to the station. ROFL

fat assed men shouldn't square up and punch small women in the face. Period. If that cop cant protect his face, and remove her from the area without a punch to the face, then he is too big a pussy to be a cop. It took two of those idiots to even get her to the ground. what a joke. They looked like they were trained to take someone down at Gymboree, or by Greg Wesley. That guy should be moping floors at IHOP, not patrolling it. Oh, and leave the self defense and interfering with an arrest crap at home. Cops are supposed to be able to handle a little lady trying to bitch slap them with ease. If this had been a 200 lb guy they were trying to arrest, both those cops would have gotten their asses kicked. Lame.

It was nice to get to see her ass though

Typical cop bullshit. You can tell by the look he gives the cameraman at the end of the video that he doesn't really like people. One of many cops that should be shot and killed to make the streets a better place.

I won't

I think all of you dissing the cops should go do their job for a week. There is nothing wrong with how they handled it. You guys saying its not ok to punch her. When is it ok? when she has a bat? a knife? a gun? This is today's society thinking. There is no respect for authority.

what the first fat cop should have done is use his weight, grab that idiotic lady, pull her ass out of the booth, throw her down, and handcuff her. He shouldn't have been playing handsy with her, and he certainly shouldn't have slapped at the gal that was simply putting her arm on him and pleading with him. His support fat assed buddy should have dealt with her. I'm not defending the girl, either of them. They are idiots and would be better to not ever reproduce. However, the cops handled this like 12 year olds

You're a piece of shit.

FYP

They could have neutralized her more quickly and easily by injuring her. They didn't, and I'm going to assume because they didn't feel the need to escalate it to that point.

Don't start what you can't finish.

Girl can take a punch.

That girl was pretty tough. She can take a beat down better than Dexter McCluster.

Bring her in for a look?

You're not paying attention. I wasn't saying that happened. I was responding to his post and pointing out what his argument results in.

Is there more than one IHOP in Buckhead?

Kids eat free at IHOP?
Wow..who knew?

While I think the punch was less of a manly thing to do, you don't **** with a cop when he is arresting someone. I think he should have just grabed and restraind her but...she asked for what she got.

Don't assault a cop, don't get punched in the face. Pretty simple math.

I never understood the Arsenio Hall fist pump technique chicks use to fight with.

She got exactly what was coming to her, fight with a cop... expect the worst.

She was a tough lil bitch tho, gotta give her credit.