"Excuse me, sir. I'm sorry to disturb you at home, but the county has lost another police brutality lawsuit. Your share comes to $472. I can take a check, but I also have a credit card swiper with me if you'd prefer to pay your share with a card".

Can you elaborate?

make it financially impossible to employ cops who do that, or tend to do that.

He must have been oblivious to the fact (or, more likely, didn't care) that he was dealing with parents who were picking up their children at an area with inadequate parking accommodations.

From the OP's link:

I really can't tell exactly what was said or exactly what happened in the time preceding the arrest

Unless she undertook a physical assault against that officer, he did his job MASSIVELY INCORRECTLY.
Supposed to de-esclate, he didnt. Fuck him FIRE his ass then charge him with assault.

News stories indicate there are signs about parking and that police are there every day issuing citations to people who ignore them. I have no idea whether the officer's report is accurate, but it apparently says she didn't move when requested to move, that she wouldn't provide her driver's license (which would have been a normal step in citing her), and that she then refused to exit the vehicle. That sounds like four strikes against her: ignoring the signage, failure to move her vehicle when requested, refusal to allow herself to be ticketed, and resisting arrest

... she was parked on the grass outside the school in southwest Miami-Dade ---where signs marked "no parking or standing" had recently been installed ...
Mom's school parking confrontation with Miami-Dade officer sends her to jail

... Parents .. are aware of the no stopping and standing signs – as well as the .. citations .. given .. daily .. to those parking where they should not ...
Parents Partially Blame School Parking For Mother’s Arrest
October 9, 2015 12:29 PM

... According to the arrest report, when the officer asked Guzman to move her car she replied, “Why are you being nasty?” ... The arrest report said after refusing to show the officer her driver’s license despite him repeatedly asking her to show it, the officer removed Guzman from her vehicle ...
Woman Pulled From Her Car By Dade Officer
Oralia Ortega
October 8, 2015 6:00 PM

... The report said Guzman began to "rotate her body away" from the officer as he attempted to handcuff her ...
Mother arrested after parking on grass at Cutler Bay elementary school
Parents say police pass out citations each day despite limited parking
Amanda Batchelor, Victor Oquendo, Jeff Weinsier
Oct 08 2015 04:25:13 PM EDT Updated On: Oct 09 2015 01:21:36 PM EDT

Pulled all the information he needed to write her a citation for her parking violation and then continued with his day.
Her refusal to offer information or co-operate in the issuing of her own ticket is surely it's own citation, but ALSO not one that should have required hancuffs.
This is about her not 'respecting his Authoritai', as it were, and the officer, in my opinion, over-reacted.

People pull all sorts of stunts

A friend of mine sat locked up in jail over the weekend once for a traffic ticket. When we finally tracked him down and sorted everything out, the story was this: some jerk, driving a car that did not resemble the one my friend actually owned, was stopped by the police for a traffic violation, claimed not to have his DL, identified himself as my friend and gave my friend's address, got the ticket and drove away; the ticket was never paid; and an arrest warrant was issued. They dropped the charges when nothing tied him to the car

People lie; people switch plates; people steal cars; people borrow cars from friends. So it's standard procedure to ask for the DL of the person behind the wheel

You've got yet another fun afternoon dealing with all the folk like me who've ignored the no-parking signs. You ask me to move. I don't. You decide to cite and ask for my DL. I won't give it to you. You ask me to step out of the car. I refuse. Most people cooperate in such circumstances; and some of those who don't can be nightmares. So far I've not only ignored the signs: I've ignored instructions to move, to produce my license, and to exit the vehicle. Am I just clueless or am I some crazy buying time until you let your guard down?

I don't think she can win a case on this. She can probably get the charges bargained down to her paying the citation she would have gotten and court costs. And the fellow who arrested her will probably get a fingerwag about being pleasant to parents picking up schoolkids

the flow of those cars is crucial to the safety of the children. A person who just decides to drive up on to the grass and then stay on their phone when the police confront them is not showing a lot of concern for the safety of children.

How does she get out of that spot? Likely she has to back up -- and children are like 40" tall so she could back over one of them.

Not saying the cop needed to be that physical but this woman is showing very little concern for anything other than herself and her phone.

The car was parked when this took place. There is nothing wrong at all in using the phone while the car is parked, and there is no reason to assume at she had to endanger anyone to leave. It's possible she chose that particular place to park because it posed less risk to the children than any other available spot.

Now instead of her having to pay for her bad actions, she is probably going to get a huge payout from the taxpayers. Cops today rely far too much on brute force and intimidation, and that is is bad for everyone all around. Citizens get abused/killed, police lose respect, and lawsuits get filed.

It would have made far more sense for him to inform her of the ticket, wrote it up, and then stayed there to ensure the safety of children.

Apparently she just kept talking on the phone and ignoring the cop after he told her to get her car off the grass. That escalated things. The cop asked for ID to write her a ticket, she refused to provide it, and when he tried to pull her out of the car, she resisted that as well.

I'm 100% against police brutality and cops stepping over the line, but there are also plenty of plain old self-centered assholes out there who are going to play the victim if they can.

She was still trying to talk on her cell phone as the cop is trying to arrest her... I guess its the case of "self centered cell phone obsessed citizen vs. cop who doesn't want to put up with it"

It's not like he hit her or tased her. She refused to move, get off the phone or provide ID. What was he supposed to do? Say, oh never mind?

And it seems she was very aware of the ticketing policy.

Maybe I'm biased because I live near a school and, every once in a while, make the mistake of forgetting not to drive past the place at 3:30pm. The parents think picking up their special snowflake means traffic and parking rules don't apply to them.

Not to mention, I spent another 2 hours of my time waiting for a tow truck last night to remove people parked in my parking lot. Second time in as many weeks. Who parks on someone's property with a big giant fucking tow sign in this neighborhood? Ignorant fuckheads, that's who. I almost felt bad when the truck dragged the car out - tires screeching and all. Almost.

I think cops are out of control, but in this case she was the one who messed up!

who could not get any other jobs other than strutting around in nazi-like uniforms and beating up innocent people.

1/2 "dirt," 1/4 water, and 1/4 AIR, and a few percent of organic matter. The air spaces allow the water to run in (instead of off the top) and provide growing space and oxygen for the roots. The weight of vehicles compacts soil into something close to 100% dirt, where grass can't live.

Yes, she was doing damage by driving on the lawn.

Just FUCK the kkkops.

Every goddam day it's another police abuse/atrocity.

But I guess Latina is close enough.