I know someone who witnessed this. The POS deserved what he got plus a lot more.
That very well may be the case but I'm still so fucking sick of seeing situations like this were it is a "outdoor vaping violation" and you have roughly 20 bike cops, regular cops and tactical response units on scene. It's a waste of money, abuse of power, grotesquely mismanaged priorities, and a slap in the face of the concept of democracy in every sense of the word.
I get there's reason why police do this. Doesn't change the fact that its repugnant to the spirit of democracy and freedom. Stalin had lots of people trying to kill him all the time. Does that justiy him digging thousands of large pits and filling them with the bodies of his political enemies and their children? NO IT FUCKING DOESN'T. Clearly we have problems, but training ALL cops to treat EVERY call like it's Ruby Ridge is NOT the solution and is probably the worst way we could be addressing these societal issues. And I see too many good people, including the blue lives matter people falling for this stupid flawed logic.
Get your shit together or leave this country if you can't be bothered to do what its founding fathers expected of you. You'll likely find North Korea more to your taste.
From what I understand, the situation escalated slowly over several minutes. The kids were asked nicely to put the vapes away and leave but they continued to smoke, talk shit, and provoke the cops. After a couple minutes, more cops gathered and it got out of control.
The kids had ample opportunity to leave with just a tiny hit to their egos but they just had to be tough guys and escalate things. The cops eventually had to either back down and not enforce the law or get physical. I'm far from a blue lives matter person, but I'm ok with the use of force here. Pieces of shit like this are given chance after chance and they just refuse to submit to any authority. And they have become pieces of shit because they've been allowed to resist authority their entire lives.
And I completely understand. I've seen plenty of videos of how niggers of all colors force police to use force. I don't want to live in a society/culture where the standard is that in cases where someone "resists" and so the police call in an apache gunship because the cops have to be ready for anything up to and beyond the perp pulling a gun or aids needle. I want to live in a society/culture where people are so rarely truly violent to the police such that in a case like this the police call in a few extra guy to muscle them like a drunk guy getting kicked out of the club. Four large men can pickup one guy and carry him away. Perhaps take their vapes and tell them they can pick them up free of charge in 24 hrs at the station. The cops never fear getting shot and so the whole process is much more civil. I know this is not the reality of many cities today, but that does not mean we simply have to accept it.
I completely understand but that doesn't mean I will accept it. I feel like too many people today have accepted it in the general sense.
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