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Originally Posted by Harry Lime
What the cop knew coming to the scene, according to the comments by people there, was that this guy was drunk, verbally abusive, had punched two people including a fireman and assaulted a teenage girl. The two people in the parking lot were there to watch him until the cops got there.
What the cop did may be over the line, but he was alone dealing with a large drunk man that assaulted three people. The cops biggest mistake was immediately making contact with the guy before his backup arrived.
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No. The cops biggest mistake was escalating the situation, slew footing an old, intoxicated man, and smashing his head into the ground. There are a million different ways he could have handled this and only a couple that would have had a worse outcome. I agree one option was to wait but that is not even necessary. He had the situation under control up to the point he decided to do an extremely dangerous take down of a person that was not acting violently to him at that time.