Comments by "Clown Life" (@Clownlife432) on "" video.

The women was acting wild, but the cops should be collected in this situation. There was no real threat of violence. He should have just told her to kick rocks, and don’t come back or she would be cited. There is too much of an issue with people trying to get paper work on everyone.
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@dmeauxoxo I said low likelihood of warrants. Perhaps I wasn’t clear. We would know if she had warrants, becuase the video would have added that after the fact. Again, ask yourself, do you think someone arguing over a 49 cent piece of cheese would stay to speak with the police is they had a warrant? Not impossible, but unlikely. Most people don’t have warrants, so unlikely in general. He should have told her to leave or be cited. It wasn’t that big of deal, and the officer escalated to a point it didn’t need to go. Do I think she should have just given her name, yes. But the reality is, the officer is the professional in this situation, and he should have weighed the risk vs reward instead of acting like a robot. He brought the temperature of that interaction up with his attitude as well. He could have simply said leave, or you can’t leave until you give ID. At no point did he need to have an attitude and get into a verbal match with a citizen. Instead of what he did do which was get dragged into a childish argument that lead to him punching her. She was being ridiculous, but he should do what an adult does with a kid, say she can’t leave, allow to verbally exhaust herself, then politely ask for her ID again. That would be how to hedge your beats to diffuse the situation if you wanted the ID. But in reality, telling her to leave would have been simple, and easy. His pride got hurt, so he overreacted. This was a prelude to how he would act later, his pride got hurt when he couldn’t handle her, and instead of get control of the situation, he punched her repeatedly. Cops do not need to ID every person they come across, it causes undue friction in the communities they operate. If she was stopped in a traffic incident or for a more serious offense for not showing ID, that would be a different story. But a minor infraction over a hamburger, over what could be argued in court whether it was trespassing was not worth the officers time. With limited resources he should move on and focus on more worth while activists. Further, he would have built a huge rapport if he had conversation with the women about why she wouldn’t show ID, and given her the option to leave. Instead, he made her feel like a trapped animal over a bad customer/employee experience. She was wrong in how she acted. He was also wrong in how he acted, and given the context that he is the professional at work, I expect better.
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@delmanglar I find that unlikely. What I find more likely is that they are potentially ratcheting up the tension for little to no gain. It would be easy to say, leave, don’t come back. This woman clearly didn’t have warrants out, or they would have told us. There is no reason to escalate a low level issue to something of this extent. This is just an issue about trade offs. Is what you are saying a possibility, unlikely, but possible. What I am saying is much more likely to happen. It also keeps the cops from taking a position about who was right or wrong, when they weren’t there, and didn’t see what happened. Writing someone a citation when the citizen perceives the other side, the restaurant employees, as getting off will innately make the other person feel like they are getting taken advantage by the employees through the use of law enforcement. That may or may not have been the case. But if you’re a cop, you’re best bet is listen to both sides, and appear neutral barring overwhelming evidence. In something minor like this, listen to both sides, then tell the person to kick rocks, and tell the employees to not treat people inappropriately if they did. Because either way you will notice a trend. Either a trend of this person seeking out confrontation, or an issue with that McDonald’s causing confrontation with customers. They did not need to ratchet this up. Also, someone with warrants, very unlikely to hang around and wait for cops to show up to handle there 49 cent burger dispute.
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@blazinpuffs she may have meant no license on her. He wasn’t citing her for a traffic citation. If he wanted to arrest, and cite her for a traffic citation, he should have said that. He said very clearly he was citing her for trespass. This has nothing to do with driving. Based on what happened, all he had to do was tell her to kick rocks. She didn’t actually steal anything, assault anyone, cause property damage. She got punched in the face after an argument with an employee about 49 cents. Could she have acted better, absolutely. Was it the officers job to deescalate, yes. Did he? No, he escalated. Was it his job to make a gut call about arguing with this woman over 49 cents, yes. Should he have done the smart thing, tell her to bounce, and not come back. Then get back out on the street, and focus on higher level issues. This woman was not a threat to the community, and this whole incident was about an overblown argument over a 49 cent cheeseburger.
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