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Old 06-21-2010, 12:43 PM
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This is already a few days old in Seattle, and the overwhelming majority of the public here thinks this officer did nothing wrong (myself included). These girls were fools. All he was trying to do was give them a ticket for jaywalking across a VERY busy street. They became verbally abusive, drawing a crowd, then started getting pushy. You can clearly see in the full video (not some of the edited ones a few TV stations have been showing) that the officers tried to calm the girls, but it was the girls who escalated the situation. When that girl pushed him, knocking him back on his heels, she should've expected the type of response she got. That's what happens when you are aggressive toward a law enforcement officer. How was he to know she wasn't going to grab his gun? She certainly wasn't behaving rationally! He did a good job of stunning her, keeping the situation from escalating.
I really wonder if this sentiment would be the same if it had been a Black cop who punched a White female.


Overall, despite race, I think both parties were wrong. They took the situation too far.
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