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In reply to the discussion: About that young lady the cop brutally attacked over the pool party.... [View all]happyslug
(14,779 posts)That is how people are TAUGHT to make an arrest, secure the person you are arresting first. The preference is against a wall (or a car) with them leaning on the wall, thus if they cause any problems, the officer can kick a leg from underneath them and knock them to the ground. On TV and the Movies this position looks a lot more nature then it really is, the officer wants the arrested to be leaning with some weight of the wall, not just your hands touching a wall.
Several years ago an African American was arrested by a Suburban Pittsburgh Police officer who kneel him till he stopped moving, the Judge ruled that the use of force was justified, even through the reason the person arrested stopped moving, was he had died do to lack of the ability to breath do to the officer's knee was on his back.
If you read the actual cases, the courts give grant discretion of how police perform their duties and thus my comment that I did not see anything that could not be justified in front of a Judge.