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They should have just tased that guy. If they didn't have Tasers I think there may have been a better way to do this. Of course we don't see what happened before all this. For all we know he was armed before and threatening them and he could have been a danger to others. I have a lot of friends that are cops and I actually work with them playing the bad guy in their training. Something I learned doing that is when you take a stick and start beating someone with it, their brains shut off and instinct takes over and you try to pull your legs up to protect your chest. You may want to comply, but you are in pain and your body is in self defense mode. Beating someone like that really never ends well because once you start hitting them it is nearly impossible for them to comply until you beat them into oblivion.
The cop turned it into a cluster fuck right from the start. One cop is pushing him one way and they other is pushing him the other. It looks like if the guy on the left (not the one that did the hitting) pulled him towards him and the other guy put a knee in his back they would have had him face down and been on top of him in no time.
Of course I say all this sitting at my computer and not being there. Being a cop is a tough job. This guy may have done nothing but good in his career, but now this will follow him around like an albatross.
The only thing that is now going to be fact, regardless of what happened before the tape started to roll is that the police will be sued, that video will be broadcast and any relationship the police have with communities that already don't trust them will be further strained.
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