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Originally Posted by ajrettke
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Yeah the kids a dumbass, but the cop in no way needed to hit him. He was no threat with a second cop right next him.
The cop knew the kid was agitated and went into his space, its not what he was trained to do, his job is to de-escelate situations and he's trained to do that.
Cop steps forward, escelates the situation, kid steps forward does the same thing. The two talk shit and the cop sucker punches him.
Both are dumb, cop should get suspended/disciplined.
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Agreed. I went back and watched the video a second time to see if the kid take a swing at the cop or something of that nature and saw nothing. All he said was "you're the one that stepped up to me" and then got sucker punched. I mean wtf was that?
The guy was trained a soldier which means that backing down isn't really something that soldiers do. Sounds to me like the cop(s) was agitated from the beginning with the "first of all, I don't run on your schedule" line.