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Originally Posted by RougeUnderoos
She was resisting. Going by the logic in this thread, a police officer can do pretty much whatever he wants to a person who resists arrest.
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Clearly not, but when confronted by the situation of these two physically confronting him, yeah he can do what he needs to do to protect himself and defuse the situation.
The oldest law in the book is its stupid to resist cop. And this isn't about some legitimate and heroic resistance by underdogs in the face of police brutality.
[QUOTE=RougeUnderoos;2549522After the Big Punch he ended up grappling for quite a while with that gal in the black shirt. If he'd hauled off and punched her also, instead of doing all that wrestling, would you say he'd gone overboard?[/QUOTE]
He punched the second girl not the original girl, and if you'll notice after the punch she was no longer a factor.
He grappled with the first girl, and he was pretty restrained in that. There was no need to throw a punch on the second one, he basically had the situation under control at that point, so there's not even a point in debating a second punch that wasn't going to happen.