As it turns out, skateboarding is a crime

I'd make a terrible cop. If I yelled at a skateboarder to stop and he didn't...well, I'd just go back to protecting and serving.

The LAPD beat the E36 M3 out of someone? That's not news.

If the guy had outstanding warrants but was resisting arrest... well, that doesn't excuse the beatdown but makes it a little more understandable.

Curmudgeon wrote: If the guy had outstanding warrants but was resisting arrest... well, that doesn't excuse the beatdown but makes it a little more understandable.

That is where I think people lose the point. Its why I say that there fact that he is a skater probably has nothing to do with it. Warrants or no warrants, resisting is what changes the game. People without warrants don't get special treatment, people with warrants don't get taken down harder. That is not to be confused with a felony take-down.

Here, read up on the force continuum

They were lucky he is 19.

Attitude should have nothing to do with it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wtcvmu3p6WM

Also, I am at a loss as to how the cop in the video N Sperlo linked was cleared by IAD, considering he went from empty hand techniques to using a baton in a matter of a second.

No, wait, I'm not confused. If you're not cop, you're little people.

Another calm cop- the detainee isn't an E36 M3-eating jerk about it, so that probably helped his case quite a bit. I'd imagine that "jeez, I might very well get shot if things go even a little wrong" is a great motivation to be polite.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZFzH5Oe-YL4