Yeah... it's hard when they're both in the wrong. Was the cop committing a crime by engaging in the theft and destruction of this man's property? Yes. Does that justify the use of force? Well... only to defend the property or detain the thief. The property was already destroyed, and he made no attempt to detain the thief.
Further, it's unrealistic to detain and punish the thief, since he's part of the a higher citizen class. Since justice is impossible, If he was going to hit the thief over the head with the bottle, he should have gone in for the kill.
>Yeah... it's hard when they're both in the wrong.
Disagree. With cops you have exactly two options in the moment:
1)Submit like a little bitch to anything they do
2)Use overwhelming force
If a cop slaps you, you can't slap him back because then you're going to jail. If you need a cop to stop whatever it is that they're doing right now, you have to incapacitate: stop the threat.
This sort of thing happens all the time to those limey cop fucks, but only in the no-go areas, then it's ok. When real people do it, it's not considered ok.
Does that justify the use of force?
Absolutely. He is an agent of the government, stealing a man's property and, under threat of governmental abuse/imprisonment, demanding he humiliate himself by then putting the bottle in the bin.
"Pick up that can" comes to mind.
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