Anyone agree with CNNs 'expert cop' on the following?
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If an officer decides to make an arrest, Houck said, he or she "can use whatever force is necessary."
"So if you don't comply with my wishes ... then I can do whatever it takes to get you out of that seat and put handcuffs on you," said Houck, a former New York police detective.
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'Whatever is necessary.' Good ol' necessity--you can justify anything with it. If he felt it
necessary, he could have gotten her out of the seat by pulling his gun and shooting her, right?
That's unless others besides the cop have to agree about the necessity. In that case, the cop is in a world of trouble, because both the local sherriff. who has suspended him
without pay, and the school administrator are on record saying he was bang out of line.
BTW Ike, did you watch the video? You may pooh-pooh the level of violence, but it looks to me like he ran a fine risk of breaking the girl's neck. Would you want a cop getting that brutal with someone
you felt was a worthy human being, with rights one is bound to respect? Whose life mattered, in other words?