You'd have to be pretty stupid to rough up a female suspect in broad daylight in a crowd of people with no backup.
She posed little in terms of a physical risk to the officer, he had her relatively under control and he managed to keep his cool and not incite the potential mob that surrounded him.
I have little sympathy for people resisting arrest, justified or not, but I can tell you that seeing a grown man manhandle a small woman would make my temperature rise a hell of a lot more than watching a cop patiently cuffing her with less than allowable force. Maybe that implies sexism on my part, but I think the cop did a good job of defusing the situation. He didn't even really seem to acknowledge the crowd.
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