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Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: More 100% raccis cops
« on: June 12, 2015, 07:29:22 PM »
This comes with the caveat that 1) I don't know what was happening prior to the start of the video (the police were investigating some party crashers, yeah?), and 2) I don't know how police are trained to deal with this specific situation. Perhaps this situation was enabled more by police regulations than this particular officer. I don't know.
This looks to me like a police officer who was frustrated by a bunch of kids and acted like an asshole, and I think his behavior probably exacerbated the situation. It look like he was getting frustrated by both the lack of cooperation from the people he was detaining, and by the people milling about taunting and insulting him. He basically says this to the detainees when he starts lecturing them. I don't blame him for being frustrated at that. This is probably one of the shittiest things he has to do as police. He's just trying to do his job, and a bunch of shitty kids are uncooperative and pretty much spitting in his face the whole time (not to mention surrounding him, which would probably trigger some genuine fear). That would suck a lot.
That said, I still think he's acting like an asshole, and I think a big part of his job is to be the cooler head. They're being super shitty, but they're just a bunch of kids. Kids are shitty. It appears on face to be kids doing what kids do: being places where they shouldn't be, running from authority, and being dicks about it in the process. No need to flip shit over it.
Ultimately I think he just lost his cool a little bit and probably shouldn't have had to resign. Police officers are people, and people lose their cool sometimes. It's understandable. He probably just needed a vacation.
This looks to me like a police officer who was frustrated by a bunch of kids and acted like an asshole, and I think his behavior probably exacerbated the situation. It look like he was getting frustrated by both the lack of cooperation from the people he was detaining, and by the people milling about taunting and insulting him. He basically says this to the detainees when he starts lecturing them. I don't blame him for being frustrated at that. This is probably one of the shittiest things he has to do as police. He's just trying to do his job, and a bunch of shitty kids are uncooperative and pretty much spitting in his face the whole time (not to mention surrounding him, which would probably trigger some genuine fear). That would suck a lot.
That said, I still think he's acting like an asshole, and I think a big part of his job is to be the cooler head. They're being super shitty, but they're just a bunch of kids. Kids are shitty. It appears on face to be kids doing what kids do: being places where they shouldn't be, running from authority, and being dicks about it in the process. No need to flip shit over it.
Ultimately I think he just lost his cool a little bit and probably shouldn't have had to resign. Police officers are people, and people lose their cool sometimes. It's understandable. He probably just needed a vacation.