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No you didn't. You advocate making the profession so difficult that no one wants to be an officer of the law. Let every criminal do whatever they wish to an officer. And don't let any officer have any slack in the most difficult and threat filled job anywhere

I never said anything like that .I've seen videos of people getting tazed and beaten and I've cheered the officer ,when it's appropriate.

When you've been in the position of being spit on and called every name in the book (and some that aren't allowed to be in the book), then please voice your opinion.

OK I will I've never been an officer but I have worked with the public and anyone who has worked with the public will eventually run into an A$$hole like this girl and guess what ? As much as I would have liked to I never beat the crap out of a customer. It's part of being an adult ...Call it self control ...everyone should try it.

What this officer did is completely inappropriate and I'm not going to give him a pass

Never said give him a pass. If you read what I wrote, exactly the opposite.

We've got people here convicting the officer of a felony (which it was not) knowing only what's on a silent video. Lord, I pray none of these people are ever on a jury ready to convict based on 30 second, non-contextual b&w video.

The officer forcibly restrained her. No one here has established the extent of the injuries or what transpired before or after the video, or the “rules of engagement” for the facility. The officer's response was over in less than 5 seconds. That hardly qualifies as a felonious or premeditated assault. Police officers make thousands of split second decisions a year.

I have no doubt that you “work with the public” and that you will “eventually run into an A$$hol”. But with all due respect, if you had 5-10 “A$$hol” incidents every shift that you work, 5 days a week, 365 1/4 days a year? Well, I think that officers have an impossible standard to uphold.

Had this officer broken bones, drawn blood, caused a concussion or pulled out a stick or gun to beat the girl mercilessly, then we would have a different conversation. Like you said with the taser, the issue is where we draw the line. The way I see it, the officer responded aggressively, but I cannot see anything that caused sustained or great bodily harm.