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Originally Posted by underGRADFlame
I implore to go on a ride along Pepsifree. It may give you a better perspective on the situations that face officers on a daily basis.
It seems that everyone is able now a days to judge a officers actions from a small video clip and "eye witness accounts" and say they should have made better decisions without perspective of the totality of the event.
I remain open to the possibility that they may have used slightly more force than necessary, but it doesn't look that way to me. But I will say that the officer appeared to be pulling his punches. So he was using the amount of force he deemed necessary to control the situation. The members don't seem to be out of control and swinging wildly, they were controlled strikes to gain pain compliance.
Regardless, 20 seconds of video doesn't give us anything but a snap shot of that part of the incident. How is it fair to only judge people by the actions during that 20 seconds, but not hold them accountable for the time surrounding?
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I think both sides must acknowledge the inability to judge then. You can't say "well I'll give him the benefit of the doubt despite lack of evidence but you can't condemn due to lack of evidence".
We can only judge what we can see and while it doesn't tell the whole story, we really have no way of extrapolating the events prior or following the video.