The cop appeared to be baiting the kid. If the kid had touched the cop, the kid might have been charged with assault and battery on a police officer. That would have merited a sentence of two years in jail. All the cop would have had to do to entice the kid to touch him would have been to have stood on the kid’s toe. The kid would have pushed back. Then the kid would have been charged with assault and battery on a police officer. If the kid got off, he would have spent tens of thousands on a lawyer. AND the kid would not have been able to file charges against the cop. The video probably saved the kid. Learn from this, it probably happens millions of times a year!
I repeat, I do not want to be presumptive as to what the cop would have done. Only the cop knows. This situation is like a lot of others that have led to charges of assault and battery on a police officer. I’ve been there.
Government employees – judges, legislators, selectmen, and police chiefs alike – mainly want to keep their jobs. Government employees do not do discipline police as that would brand them as “soft on crime”.
There are 20 million arrests in the United States each year. Two million people are in jail. Ever wonder why?
Horrors, “Soft on Crime”! What about being soft on police abuse? Isn’t being soft on police abuse also being soft on crime?