MooseMan3000

You weren't being attacked by people you were sworn to protect. You weren't in constant fear for your life for weeks on end while thousands of drunkards rioted in the street. You weren't forced to stay there to try to protect those same drunkards that would just as soon see you dead just because you were a cop. So no, it's not really the same thing at all.

The man wasn't booked solely for intoxication. He was also booked for assault on a police officer, as well as "public intimidation." I don't know exactly what that means, but it sounds an awful lot like he was threatening to kill someone to me. It doesn't matter where you are, what's happening. If someone threatens to kill anyone, I fucking hope the cops will beat his ass down.

Furthermore, in the video it's obvious the man was struggling; it took 4 officers to restrain him. Now we have no indication if this guy was only drunk. For all we know, he could have been hopped up on anything. I've never personally had to restrain anyone on crack, but I witnessed two police officers trying to do the same. Two large men were thrown down by one smallish guy who was on drugs. He was ready to murder both of them, in the street. Had there not been a very large fisherman there willing to step in, he most likely would have killed them both.

Is this situation the same? Probably not. But we don't know that. The only evidence we have is what we see in the video, which begins well after the confrontation began. We don't know what the man said, we don't know what he did to warrant arrest. But the fact is, these officers were in a war zone. If you've ever seen a riot in person, you'll know what I mean. They were under constant and immediate threat to their lives. Did they overreact? Perhaps. But us judging them without knowing the whole situation is absurd.