Reply #45: Regardless of how you were treated as a kid... [View All]

[El Pinko]

It's definitely excessive use of force in light of the situation.

I'm no legal expert, so I'll back off the issue of whether this qualifies as assault.

I agree that this officer needs to be reprimanded or possibly fired, but it just seems that assault charges are a rather extreme response to what amounts to rough handling.

The courts may see it differently, and the kid's parents certainly have the right to try.


BTW, I didn't think the kids were being disrespectful. A lot of kids just talk this way without thinking anything of it.

If they were trying to be disrespectful, they would have called him "beeyotch" or something worse. "Dude" is not disrespectful, IMO. And we as citizens should not be expected to call policemen "sir" or "Officer So-and-so" as though they were our overlords.



But I really don't think this nut would have ever harmed the kids. In his own warped mind, he probably thought he was teaching them a lesson of some sort.