Combative arrest? What does that mean? Does the Chief mean this guy was arrested for violence? Ya know that could mean he simply pulled his arm away after being grabbed by a LEO...
In court they'll be forced to reveal if this guy had a violent criminal history. It'll be interesting to see where this goes from here...I'll follow it...
I'll be honest with ya.
This video has now been seen by nearly 425,000 people on the Internet...If the LEOs continue with this type of violent military tactics, for relatively minor, non-violent crime, they're going to have big problems in the future.
Bet the rent.
A dynamic raid for minor offense is just wrong. I never heard of such a thing. However, arrest warrants for misdemeanorin’ hombres who default court, and have a violent history, are sometimes approached that way. Sometimes the judges get pissed that cops don't actively pursue defaulters. [Stop letting them out on the streets pending their forever trials, sirs’, says I]
The bumps come when info is bad, or addresses are wrong, etc.
Great care is taken. No cop wants to get involved in a cluster that can send him to jail or cost him all he has.
But sometimes stuff goes wrong. One must weigh the bad and good...reasonably...to determine prudence of such measures. That has been done...and judicial and legislative check are such that, if things are as bad as made out to be by the YouTube activists, the practice would be curtailed; but the data and real-life experience of learned men deny the purported crisis view.
I'm now a constable, and I have arrest powers in my state. Would that it devolved upon me the effect his arrest, you can bet I'd be bashing the door at 4am...and I'd shoot the freakin’ dog, too. He has nuthin’ to lose. And I won't be poked with his knife or bullet while distracted... wrestling with his animal.
Attitude? You betcha! Survival. I wanna see another day. And I don't wanna kill nobody...legit or otherwise, either.
A window into my mind that might illuminate the discussion.