“Oh, shit!” Philadelphia cop sucker punches woman celebrating Latino heritage (w-Video)

[jsmirman]

17. Outrageous - but I'm pretty sure she *did* throw water

I watched it multiple times and full screen to see if people here really were seeing something different from the description.

I don't think so. If you watch carefully, she was holding *two* water bottles, one in each hand, and she certainly *appears* to be throwing water using the bottle in her left hand (she was throwing water first, then the second water thrower immediately comes into frame).

Watch again, and I think you'll realize you're in error if you think she didn't participate.

The response is still beyond absurd - how could that possibly have been necessary to secure her for arrest, even if that was the goal?

I think there will be some pretty serious fallout from this.

I'm glad someone was capturing the video of this. This is one way in which technology has helped bring incidents like this to the light of day.

As to the above, I'd just prefer to have the record straight, which I think people are, in a well-meaning way, getting wrong. The record that includes her throwing water and possibly deserving some form of police response is more than sufficient. It is an outrageous response to someone throwing water or to anyone the cops deem necessary to subdue. A punch to the face? That guy cannot be serious.