Ok, gotta throw in my two cents worth. Most of the comments made about this incident are very ignorant. Looking at this video and making comments about cops beating this guy are just flat wrong and if you think they were “beating” him then your just looking for a reason to bad mouth cops. They were hitting this guy on his pressure points to try and get him to comply. Nothing wrong with that. Would you prefer that if this guy fought long enough not to be handcuffed that the cops said "well, never mind he doesn’t want to be arrested and we don’t want to force him into cuffs because we might hurt him, so we’ll just let him go and forget the whole thing occurred.
I bet if this guy slapped your little sister you would want him arrested by any means necessary. Even if he did something minor but it was still an arrestable offense then he should have complied with officers. It may not be pretty, but it is necessary to ensure the arrest. That is how we try to maintain law and order. If you don’t agree well, too bad.
Don’t be an arm chair quaterback. If you’ve never been a cop then you have no clue as to what it is like to deal with people who are hell bent on not being arrested. My wrestling coach used to say it takes 6 guys to handle a crazy man, so no, this wasn’t unreasonalbe; and there are no sure fire ways to subdue, restrain, and cuff people like this.
When I was in the police academy, and during my current training, we practice situations like this and when we play the roll of the combative individual it takes a lot of work to get him cuffed. Im a decent sized guy and I wrestled a couple of years in high school, and I can honestly tell you that if I was a bad guy and didn’t want to be cuffed I wouldn’t be. You could use six of the baddest MMA heavy weight fighters in the world and have them try to cuff me and I guarentee you they would have to work their asses off to get it done. And they would have to “beat me up” also. I’m not trying to say that I’m a big bad ass either. I’m just saying that it is hard to cuff people who don’t want to be.
FYI, The use of a tazer has never killed anyone (proven fact if you do the research in an unbiased manner). People who haved died after being tazed are going to die anyway because they are going through what is known as “Excited Delerium” which is a condition that these people create in themselves due to the abuse of several different types of drugs. (YES, this issue is highly debated, but the majority, if not all of the unbiased research shows this to be true.) Some times the restraining of these people exasperates this condition but unfortunately it is necessary because they are a threat to themselves and/or innocent persons, and they can’t be left alone to walk the streets, or “your neighborhood.” Im not trying to start a debate about the use of a tazer, but another “fact” is since the introduction of the tazer and the use of it has become more accepted and implemented less people, (cops and arrestees), are hurt, injured or killed, because of its use. People become real compliant after being tazed. AND YES, I HAVE BEEN TAZED. 3 TIMES VOLUNTARILY FOR TRAINING PURPOSES.
LISTEN, you don’t have to agree with me. Every one is entitled to their opinion. Just make sure your opinion is based on facts or real life experiences. Commenting on what cops are doing on the street by watching a shitty cell phone video isn’t appropriate.
Finally, Everyone knows that only “1%” of the population are the ones who actually commit crimes, don’t let the less than 1% of cops who are pricks make you think were all that way. Cops are people too, and just like every day people some are nice, some are mean, some are pricks, and some are cool. I bet anything that if those of you that think all cops, or most cops, are pricks that if you actually became a cop you would understand what this job is like and what it is like dealing with people who don’t want to deal with you. Its actually funny when someone has been arrested and they omplain that they were harrassed, beaten, or verbally abused and when the video footage is played the defendants are the ones being jerks and abusive, and the cops were being professional. This happens a lot.
OK, I’m done, sorry, had to rant. Thanks for reading.