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Originally Posted by CorsiHockeyLeague
You mean control the situation without physicality? Sure. But once there is physicality, once a wrestling match is under way, even if it's the police's fault and shouldn't have been initiated, subduing the suspect has to be the top priority. The suspect simply cannot win the fight. If escalation to a physical interaction was done improperly or prematurely, contrary to procedure, the officer should be punished later (and an institutionalized failure to do so is an entirely separate problem).
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Sorry, I am just making my way through my first cup of coffee.
I completely agree with you, but I was just referring back to our original exchange regarding whether or not police can verbally solve a dispute before applying force.
In this case, physicality was almost guaranteed from the start, and this level of force is always necessary in these situations.
You can also flip it and say that people complain all the time that police don't use non-lethal force enough to subdue dangerous suspects... well they do, and this is what it looks like. Better that, in my opinion, then stepping back and giving it to him with a taser, or worse, a gun.