First of all, I was discussing the first video on this thread and not the school one. The one where a cop is punching a black woman on the side of a California freeway. I didn't realize this thread has drifted quite a bit. What would I have done? I would have called for backup as there would be no telling how things would go down with the various crazies in today's society. Then I would have attempted to stop her from going into traffic on the freeway. If she got violent, then I would have done everything possible to nuetralize her as a threat. Whether that would be to taze her if I had access to a tazer or use the baton to both defend myself from her as well as to subdue her. I would have done what it takes to wrestle her down to the ground on her stomach and pin her there. Then pin her arms behind her back and cuff her. And if for some reason wrestling her to the ground is too dangerous, I would use the baton as a means to discourage her from the traffic and encourage her to head in a direction away from the highway and wait for the backup to arrive to deal with her. Either way I would not just go and assault her regardless of what she had done in the beginning.
As for the incident in the school with the student refusing to stop texting on a cell phone. When I was growing up, the school would have dealt with the problem themselves. It usually would have involved detention or suspension of the student and the parents notified. The police would not have been called out to deal with the student who was not a danger.
On a similar note there was an incident where I live recently. I currently live in a trailer park and there is this resident in the park that has made some enemies of some of the other residents. I have only seen two of the incidents between him and the other residents. Based on what I have seen from the first incident, I would say that his problem is using poor judgement and handling the situation in a verbally confrontational way. He was going around the trailer park collecting aluminum cans at night and walking between trailers. His neighbor called the police on him as a result. He ended up getting ticketed by the police. The second incident that I saw was a clear case of harassment against him as he was doing nothing wrong. All he was doing was lounging on a chair in the pool area listening to a portable music device. Another one of the resident's who is a part of the trailer park block watch is walking by the pool and sees him. Apparently this resident thought this guy was sleeping in the pool area. So this resident enters the pool area to have a word with him. I didn't hear what this resident had said to him, but I did hear his reply back. He basically said that he was being harassed and if they wanted to call the police on him to go ahead. The resident then leaves and does just that. The police arrive and speak to the resident that called them first. Then they enter the pool area and speak with this guy. Then they go back out and speak with the resident who called them. Then the police arrested the resident for having them come out for no apparent reason.
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