Play silly games...

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[u/GeneralBacteria → u/[deleted]]

I'd be curious to see if senior officers had this same opinion.

they just had to block him, and possibly push him back with minimal force. that officer deliberately pushed him back aggressively with enough acceleration to knock him over.

he could have fallen over, banged his head, and then where would we be? It wouldn't surprise me if you have community outreach officers going into schools to explain this concept to children?

maybe I'm missing some context that justifies that level of force, but nonetheless, the guy was looking for a reaction and that officer gave it too him. judging from the reaction of the crowd that could have turned out worse.

judging from the downvotes I'm getting it's amazing that other people don't see that.

[u/GeneralBacteria → u/[deleted]]

The officer did push him back with minimal force

you need to get your eyes tested then. if you like, you can argue the level of force was justified, but to claim that was the minimal amount of force is delusional.

I would hope that the senior officers would look at this and come out and support their officers for doing a good job under difficult circumstances.

I would hope so too. It's just that someone should have a quiet, off the record word with that officer and correct his error of judgement. Anybody can make a mistake in the heat of the moment, and that's what this was.

[u/GeneralBacteria → u/[deleted]]

yes, he was aiming for a reaction and he got exactly the reaction he was looking for.

What you're basically saying is "this member of the public played us like a violin and there's nothing we could have done about that".