The officer was wrong. What he should have done is loaded them up, driven them home and kicked the ever loving hell out of the trash that spawned them.

I’m no fan of the police, but if we are gonna have laws and pay someone else to enforce them, then shut up and let them do it or do it your damn self.

I really feel sorry for the kids, the “brutality” they suffered must be severely traumatic. Get a grip sheeple.

The police officer is supposed to be not only a professional but an adult as well. He not only is NOT a professional, nor acts in an “adult” like fashion, but escalates the situation as Marshall explains above.

The questions people need to ask themselves is:

“How would I feel if that was my child?”

“Are these children so out of control that this type of reaction is justifiable?”

“Would I not also run away if put in this same situation.?”

“Why does the police officer act so brutally to the children after returning from chasing the one that ran away when those kids could have been LONG GONE before he ever came back?”

I am not saying these children did not need to learn a lesson but the issue at hand are the principles being instilled and executed by our officers of the law.

I’m not saying these kids were right by any stretch of the imagination, but the conduct the officer displayed is reprehensible. Choking the thirteen year old in the photo taken by Nall alone breached what is reasonable for detaining a child. The subsequent threats of force are also out of line with a misdemeanor charge. Likewise the threats to MACE the kid.

A ticket, confiscating the skateboards until the parents could be notified, and stern warning. Those are proper methods of dealing with youths like this.

Of course we don’t see the beginning of the fracus and you can tell the video has been edited.

I’ve watched the youtube video at least a dozen times. The officer was NOT out of line!!!!!

As far as Williams choking the boy once he was on the ground? I want you to put your hand under your jaw, with the thumb grasping one side of your jaw and the rest of your fingers on the other. The gap between the thumb and fingers will most probably be under your chin. Push up. How is that hold choaking you? It’s not. It’s on the jaw restraining you. I’ve used it numerous of times with my kids.

Is this what Williams actually did? Don’t know, can’t tell by the pic. If Williams did have his hand around his throat it was obviously just a restraining action cause you don’t hear the boy fussing about being choked.

Did Williams hurt anyone? No.

The problem is not with Williams but with the kids who did not listen to him.

You should check the unedited version on youtube. There’s no doubt that the cop was out of control with the girl. She didn’t try to fight the cop like he said she did, but he put her in a choke hold and flung her around by the neck anyway.

wasn’t there a program by amnesty international to secretly provide citizens who lived under repressive regimes with video cameras?

what a great concept movie witness is.

i wonder what law the kid with the camera broke — inciting a riot? too bad i ‘m too old & fat to run that fast; i’ll have to take extra care to be surreptitious. it’s not just to avoid an arrest, but to smuggle the documentation away from the crime scene.

if citizens can be tested for drug & alcohol abuse, why can’t raging cops be tested for steroids? how many police departments test for them on a routine basis?

IMO, the kids got exactly what they were looking for: TROUBLE