I wonder if all this backlash against police brutality is going to have the effect of pussifying some of the police into being too scared to administer the proper level of force. I don't care if the girls were 10 years old! Once they started punching the officers, they were entitled to and should have received the full slam down! I feel that if I were in that situation as an officer I would have been as diplomatic as possible and even if they hit me, as long as it wasn't anything I felt as painful or dangerous I would probably still be fairly calm about it but, they WOULD do whatever it was I was ordering them to do whether willingly or not!
I've been in a situation where I was trying to subdue someone and they were punching and kicking me but, they weren't strong enough for it to hurt me so, I just continued trying to get a better grip on them without doing them any harm.
However, I had another similar situation where a person DID hit me in a way that hurt and I ended up cutting my knuckle on their tooth. Of course, it came through their lip to do so. They calmed down rather quickly at that point.
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