no arrested for disobeying a lawful order, then resiting detainment, then grabing the cops baton

You need to cite that, the article says trespassing, the witness says jay-walking, either of those two where what the initial arrest was for.

Why are you actually educating yourself of the situation? No, the guy was obviously just jaywalking, the police shot him 20 times in the head and buried him in a shallow grave. End of story!

It's not education if you fabricate information to support your views on the situation. Neither is it educating, when your making fun of the clear excessive use of force.

Explain why the officer need back up to restrain a minor? You saw the video didn't you? The kid was on his back the entire time held down by the officer? Or are youo burying your head in the sand.

He overreacted, sure. But at least he didnt pull out a gun and shot him. Thats where Im at when it comes to the police in the US. As long as they dont kill someone, its ok.

Here we go again: police officers justifying their blatant abuse of force by blaming the victim, even though being arrested for jaywalking is the stupidest thing. As soon as I saw the title, I knew they were going to cover their asses with the excuse that they were doing their job.

Fair enough. The thing about excessive force is that, I don't think its increased that much from in the past. Rather, thanks to social media, the public scrutiny has been turned to 12 b/c of social media. A side effect of this awarness is more distrust, which ultimately leads to even more altercations like this.

On a personal note, I got in trouble with a cop once, I got a slap on the wrist and my I got in huge trouble with my Mom.

We cannot comment on whether excessive force was used as the video does not capture the whole incident.

Fair enough.

excessive force is defined as: An unreasonable seizure occurs when a law enforcement officer usesexcessive force in making a lawful arrest. Whether force is reasonably necessary or excessive is measured by the force a reasonable and prudent law enforcement officer would use under the circumstances. - http://www.lectlaw.com/def/e055.htm

I'm not a lawyer, nor do I want to be, but I would argue pinning him down and calling more officers against a 14 year old, which we do see in the video, would constitute excessive force, but that assumes the arrest was lawful itself, and its up to a judge.

I say we just execute all jaywalkers. They're the worst