I was one of those who has given help and assistance to this type of guy countless times. No one on one of my crews treated one of our “customers” this roughly and would have reported a police officer who did. We treat everyone on the left coast with kid gloves. But the headline of the thread was greatly exaggerated as is your description of the event. And how drunk or high this guy was is questionable as I have seen many come back to life almost immediately. My guess is that this clown was probably a regular and we do not know the full story.
I understand... I have seen the scams myself before. But did you watch the video? The officer was absolutely indifferent about this guy’s situation scam or not, and made him hit his head hard a couple times and then punched him in the head while he was down and no threat. Even if it was a regular scammer it was handled very unprofessional and could have caused additional injuries. It was completely out of line at the least.
the little ammonia capsule usually woke him up real fast