Looked to me more like he was smacking him on the arse as he ran away:laugh_at::laugh_at::laugh_at: – kinda hard to tell though.
Accent sounds like somewhere in California. Plenty guns about if that’s the case, and IMO the cop didn’t overreact at all. Somewhere with lots of guns – if someone gets out of a car with another guy still in the car, and starts hurling abuse at you – alarm bells should start ringing. Lot of places in the world the cop would pull a gun, not a baton, and both of them would have been looking down a barrel before being hauled off to the nick.
Would be interested to see what bruises etc the guy ended up with – as I said, the ones you can see at the end look more like smacking his arse. It looks to me like they aren’t designed to actually harm – having done stage fighting, and been a re-enactor, I’m fairly good at spotting the difference between show and malicious intent (the thighs and arse are useful spots for a stage fight btw – you can hit quite hard, and not hurt someone. Did a fight in a play once, where we worked in a thigh kick while the other actor was bending over on all fours, to make it look like I’d kicked him in the ribs. It never failed to get a gasp from the audience because I could kick him hard enough to move him across the stage without actually hurting him at all). Blows done with intent are usually less savage looking because they are much faster (like the first one). The ones that look savage are (contrary to logic) usually less dangerous.
I would guess he’s bruised to buggery across his collar bone, and maybe on his cheek (maybe even a broken collar bone from the first blow). As for the rest from what can be seen on the video – probably just a sore bum cheek or thigh…:laugh_at::laugh_at::laugh_at:and well deserved IMO.
If the cop had really intended to damage the guy, he wouldn’t have gotten up from the first hit and been able to run away.
And as GL says – it’s no different from targeting someone because of race, or appearance. Don’t think anyone would have issue with it if he’d chosen a black guy to hurl racist abuse at, and been leathered for it. Most people would have said it was deserved, and that he should have been kicked up and down the street for good measure.
And even if the cop did overreact, and has hurt the guy – the cop is only human too. Everybody has a snapping point (not an excuse for it, but having some tosser come up to you and hurl random abuse for no reason at all is certainly a mitigating factor IMO).
No real excuse for behaving like a f***wit though…:you_crazy:you_crazy:you_crazy. And you do get the feeling that the lesson has been learned – doubt he will randomly abuse anyone for the camera again…
