cop kicks teen with his hands up

"The kicking of the suspect was justified"!

Just a wild guess.

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kick from behind. big hard kicks, not little old lady kicks

Did something happen before that clip starts?

It's hard to make a judgment with only one side of a confrontation given.

Guy was holding his hands up. Even if he punched the cop 1 minute ago the cop does not get a "freebie".

Or punching the woman who was stopped for jaywalking. JAYWALKING! == Punch in the face?

Surely there's a "good reason."

An undercover officer had just gotten his ass kicked in an alley while doing an undercover drug buy. There is still no word as to whether the kid that was kicked had anything to do with it. I live near Seattle and the cops are completely out of control here. Before we got a new Mayor, they got away with police brutality 100% of the time, now it's just 80%.

up in the surrender position--universally recognized. The cop has been involved in other excessive force stuff--even forcing dismissal of a case DURING trial!

Should it be?

If this kid just committed a crime, if he exhibited violence toward that same police officer outside, then the officer had a right to eliminate that threat again. Yes, he did.

I don't know. I used to hate cops when I was younger, because I had a singular view, and was easily excitable, eager to vent all my angst against some authority figure. "Who the hell are you to tell me what I can and cannot do?" Hated cops.

But the realization slowly came to me that many of the people around me were untrustworthy. People stealing. People lying. People killing, other people. Every day. All around you. All around me, at least, it seems.

And suddenly, I see cops in a new light. I see them as protectors. I know how that sounds, but I do. We have a group of people that will come to your house, on a dark road, in response to a call that there was a madman running from room to room killing your family. They're who you call, and they'll walk right into the most dangerous situations, in the name of protecting the innocent, to getting criminals off the street. And I have grown to admire these brave people. It's not a job I would want.

Does that mean I think there should be no standards of conduct, and that our freedoms should be negotiable? No, it doesn't.

It does mean that I'm not going to jump to conclusions and join in on an uninformed bashing of the cops when we only have part of the story.

Could there possibly be any conceivable reason that would justify what we saw on the tape. Yeah, I think there might be a few. Just my opinion, and I'd be happy to join you in a discussion if you want.

I really hope so. Internal investigation is such a joke.

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We have way too many cops in this country and the vast majority suck ass.