Police "brutality" in Iceland

[Thor]

This is making the rounds now here in Iceland, to be quite honest I'm with the cop on this one, it was a bit excessive but wow you do not spit at a cop, if anything he showed a lot of restraint trying to ignore her until she spit on him. (It seems as he was going to let her be and drive on.)

[Zevo]

I have no problem with that. As soon as bodily fluids are involved, that's assault. Take em down.

[kirant]

Despite other videos opening just fine on YouTube, I'm getting an error.

Anybody mind giving me a Coles notes version of the video?

[Thor]

Try the video in this link, I think its vimeo

http://visir.is/harkaleg-handtaka-i-.../2013130709322

[Zevo]

Originally Posted by kirant

Despite other videos opening just fine on YouTube, I'm getting an error.

Anybody mind giving me a Coles notes version of the video?

Woman spits on cop through window of police van.
Cops take her to the ground and cuff her.
Put her in said van.
The end.

[Thor]

Well "throw her harshly" and smack her pretty hard on that bench..

But still, spit on a cop you expect any less?

[Zevo]

Originally Posted by Thor

Well "throw her harshly" and smack her pretty hard on that bench..

But still, spit on a cop you expect any less?

That's the thing, when you assault a police officer, you shouldn't expect to be gently taken into custody.

[nik-]

I usually find most police brutality videos excessive from the cop side, but this is nothing.

[cDnStealth]

I was expecting her to get kicked while on the ground or cracked in the face with a baton but that just seemed pretty standard.

[FlamesAddiction]

Yeah, isn't that just a standard arrest?

Although you can't tell from that video that there was any spit involved. Unless the guilty person admits it, you are just going by their word.

[Thor]

Eyewitnesses said she did spit.

[undercoverbrother]

Looks like they could have arrested her for being pissed in public, before she spit on them.

[Huntingwhale]

She spat on them? Beat her down.

[Thor]

That is the obvious thing, he was basically just telling her to move out of the way, then used the door to push her away. Had she just moved on she would not have been arrested.

She went out of her way to provoke and then spit on him to seal the deal.

[fundmark19]

Wow police brutality in Iceland is soft. There was nothing brutal about that at all. I leave disappointed

[ricoFlame]

this is police generosity.

[CaptainCrunch]

So that's what passes for police brutality nowdays. In my days if you spit on a cop, they would have arrested you, taken you downtown and given you the pink bunny treatment.

Any of you that were arrested drunk and being abusive in Calgary will know what I mean.

[puckluck2]

Spitting on someone should get your face smashed in. Was hoping it was more excessive.

[Weiser Wonder]

Excessive but somewhat understandable.

I don't think cops have the authority to be violent in the face of disrespect, but when you're spit on I can understand how you'd lose it for a second.

[blankall]

Originally Posted by Thor

Well "throw her harshly" and smack her pretty hard on that bench..

But still, spit on a cop you expect any less?

She hits the bench, because she was resisting the take down. Doesn't look to me like he purposely pushed her into the bench at all. The cops don't even thrown her onto the ground.

This video is very tame by Canadian standards. I was also expecting a video showing batons or boots being used.

The officer pulls a little too aggressively on her arm, but even that might be standard procedure.