Comments by "Crazy Eyes" (@CrizzyEyes) on "These Are the Cops Who Were Doused With Water" video.

It is strange, but I guess the higher ups did it to make the department seem stronger. IIRC these cops were called specifically because people were throwing water around. It was a summer party. It was disrespectful to throw water on them, but it's equally likely that the one guy with the bucket and everyone else were just swept up in the moment. Ironically the lady filming was the one who did the real damage to their reputation by posting the video online. To virtually any regular citizen, this would be the most desired outcome for a police interaction; no one hurt or arrested because people were just having fun. The second clip with the lady being splashed when she doesn't want to be is a little different though.
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Lol at the guy suggesting the cops start shooting people for dousing water on them. I believe this happened originally because the whole neighborhood was throwing water around like a sort of summer block party. Someone called the cops because they were worried about what was happening, although the people throwing water around were just trying to have fun. The cops basically decided "well, they're just having fun and don't seem to be hurting anyone, so we'll just leave" and didn't escalate by arresting anyone even as they were doused. Was it disrespectful for them to be doused? Sure, but they didn't show up just to be doused nor were they doused in the pursuit of some more important duty. The only real humiliation comes from the fact that this video blew up.
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@chrome7695 They were, though. That was the actual reason they were throwing water around. In friendlier times, people used to do stuff like this during the summer pretty often to have fun and cool off, but of course someone called the cops on them because it seemed, I dunno, "disorderly." The real mistake was calling the cops in the first place, the second big mistake was then recording them so they could be embarrassed internationally by a clip taken out of context, then reprimanded by their own department in a pathetic attempt to save face. The whole issue was manufactured because of perceived reputation damage and wouldn't exist without that video. You can't tell me that you wouldn't want this to be the outcome, zero people hurt or arrested, if you lived in that neighborhood.
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