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

[jsmirman]

56. Yep, thanks. A punch in the face as a means of subduing

is still beyond what I grew up seeing, and growing up in NY, I saw a friend get a gun shoved into the side of his head and thrown against a squad car, simply because he was black, wearing a red shirt, and in a white neighborhood (that matched a suspect description, but really?).

I think this is going to get serious run. He punched a woman in the face. It doesn't matter that she was being a little rowdy. There was no need to punch her in the face.

But if there's an argument to why her water toss mattered at all, it's probably that it can often take a few provocations to draw a response, and the first may have added a cumulative effect to the second.

I don't know if an officer grumbled, "water" to the other group of officers, and then the second water toss (with much more water) came in, at which point they decided that they had a "situation."

I think it's hard to know exactly what happened beyond what we can see. And what we can see says that 1) she did something she shouldn't be doing but 2) the response can't possibly be justified.

I do think the reason so many people are missing her throwing water is because it happens at the very beginning of the video in the OP. It's right at the start, and if you don't lock on the video right from the top, you'll miss it.