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Originally Posted by wpd654
Use of force rarely looks good on film. The camera lenses gives a much wider perspective of the incident than the officer sees. In this video the suspect is obviously non-compliant and the report articulates probable cause that he was obstructing another officer from taking someone into custody.
The suspect and officer appeared fairly evenly matched in size and strength. Even when the suspect was on his back he was not effectively in custody. The officer did a great job of delivering strikes to the suspect causing him to turn away so he could be maneuvered onto his stomach. Once he was secured the strikes stopped and the applicating of force was over. That is as clean as it gets with a combative person at bar close. If my wife called the police for an intruder breaking into my house I would want that officer to respond.
Thanks for this thread. I showed the West Memphis video at roll call yesterday.
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How about this one, then: http://www.cnn.com/2014/07/07/us/cal...otape-beating/
Going to fists seems to make it personal.
Pat
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