If you think a slap to the face and a charlie horse is "Police Brutality" than you live a very sheltered and blessed life ...
One thing a lot of people don't understand about protests like this is that (while the crowd is mostly made up of misguided upper middle-class 'children' who believe that everyone should get a liberal arts degree and the world's problems can be solved through interpretive dance) there are always paid protesters and political extremests who try to provoke violence and destruction for political gain. While we see the police officer strike the woman we don't see much leading up to it and we don't really know what this woman had been doing to the officer before hand.
Now, the police officer probably shouldn't have hit her and he probably should be suspended for his actions; but the protester had probably been warned dozens of times to leave the area and to stop trying to break through the line, and she should have listened and not forced the esclation of force from the police officer.
