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Originally Posted by Baraka_Guru
This is assault, and the officer should receive whatever such a charge in this situation would bring him.
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Yep.
the "heat of the moment" arguments bring up an interesting sidebar. I certainly wouldn't get away with beating someone who pissed me off because it was the "heat of the moment." I am expected to be a mature adult who can control his actions sufficiently so as not to beat people who make me angry. Those advancing the "heat of the moment" defense are really saying that cops should not be expected to have the same level of maturity and restraint as the rest of us are expected to have. That means either that the badge should give you a free pass to break the law whenever you feel like it, or that cops in general are less mature and less able to control themselves than the rest of us. I tend to reject both interpretations.