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Originally Posted by Yrebmi
Ocean was not co-operative but did stay calm in comparison to the rather unprofessional cursing police officers.
Hard to make a judgment without seeing the build up. The other skaters have already left the ice. Why didn't Ocean?
Once the officers have committed to making an arrest, they cannot back down. That would set an horrible precedent. After that point, Ocean is resisting arrest and becomes in the wrong regardless of whether the arrest reason was reasonable.
It must be frustrating and difficult for peace officers being directed to enforce laws and regulations they may not even support. That's on the politics not them.
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Different take from me watching it for sure. You're saying this guy stayed calmer than the swearing police officers. Okay.
But he had already been asked to get to the ground for the arrest. It doesn't matter how calm you are in not complying, you are escalating the arrest to a take down, full stop. They were two female police officers that were clearly struggling to get him down while he tried to stay up, and OMG they dropped an F bomb!!! Like **** me.
Resisting arrest is treated as a very dangerous situation by police, for very good reason. They took the situation where it needed to go, and it went there because of this self centred, attention seeking moron.