The teen girl reacted as anyone would when an officer runs up and grabs you. The crowd reacted to the officer because it looks like he is attacking her.
Look again at the video- there are two officers calmly walking towards that same group, and then officer dumbass RUNS past them screaming and swearing, and grabs the girl and tries forcing her to the ground.
She was not fighting him, she was trying to protect herself from injury. The crowd around her reacts to SAVE her- and he has to draw his gun to make them back up- causing further panic.
He escalated the situation and was almost forced to shoot, and then he would have claimed it was justified because they attacked him.
“The teen girl reacted as anyone would when an officer runs up and grabs you.”
Wrong. First, the officer would not be grabbing me because when he gave me a lawful order to disperse I would have done so. Unless, of course, my goal was civil disobedience and get arrested, in which case I still would not have resisted arrest.
“The crowd reacted to the officer because it looks like he is attacking her.”
Wrong again. Unless you have strong evidence that a cop is a criminal or maybe someone pretending to be a cop, you had better cooperate in a situation like this.
When her girlfriends come rushing over, the officer glances and realizes they are not there to interfere but he tells them to back off. And they do. Then two large males come around to his side, and one moves his hands like he is drawing a weapon. That is a recipe for getting yourself killed.
“She was not fighting him, she was trying to protect herself from injury.”
When an officer tells you to get on the ground, the best way to protect yourself is to get on the ground without making him or her put you there.
This girl did not need to be there. She had been told to leave. She would not have been told to get on the ground if she didn’t come back into the situation with no reason to be there.
“The crowd around her reacts to SAVE her”
The crowd could have spared her of this embarrassment and bruised ego if they had grabbed her by the arm and led her away where she should have been at this point.
The time may come to stand up to the police for excessive force and their own criminal conduct, but don’t jump the gun. We need police to maintain law and order. When your unauthorized pool party disturbs the peace and leads to violence so the police need to come in and fix it, that is not the time to try to police the police.
“He escalated the situation “
The people who refused to cooperate and those who interfered were the ones that unnecessarily escalated the situation.