Comments on: You Just Can’t Hide: YouTube and the Police on the BART http://www.michellesblog.net/social-media-and-society/you-just-cant-hide-youtube-and-the-police-on-the-bart-instance Michelle Greer, Web Marketing Strategist Tue, 07 Feb 2012 21:36:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Tylerhttp://www.michellesblog.net/social-media-and-society/you-just-cant-hide-youtube-and-the-police-on-the-bart-instance/comment-page-1#comment-1360 Tyler Fri, 18 Dec 2009 11:25:53 +0000 http://www.michellesblog.net/?p=571#comment-1360 While social media was the point of the post, I agree with Legion. The cop is pretty far off the wall when he swings the guy over, I think he was just positioning in the wall, not with the intent to throw into the glass. Just my 2 cents While social media was the point of the post, I agree with Legion. The cop is pretty far off the wall when he swings the guy over, I think he was just positioning in the wall, not with the intent to throw into the glass. Just my 2 cents

]]> By: *Legion*http://www.michellesblog.net/social-media-and-society/you-just-cant-hide-youtube-and-the-police-on-the-bart-instance/comment-page-1#comment-1326 *Legion* Tue, 24 Nov 2009 19:16:07 +0000 http://www.michellesblog.net/?p=571#comment-1326 I'm sorry, but when the videotaper said "Game over, drunk man... the cop is not f**kin' around", I almost fell out of my chair.Watching it twice, it seems to me like the cop really didn't mean to thrust the guy *through* the window. None of his actions before or after that moment had that sort of escalation of force. I think he was just trying to shove him up firm against the wall, but he clearly did it too hard, and the window isn't a wall.That doesn't excuse the action, but there's definitely a big difference between a mistake/lapse of judgment, versus consistent and deliberate use of excessive force.Cop needs to be more careful, and take something off that wall-shove fastball. I’m sorry, but when the videotaper said “Game over, drunk man… the cop is not f**kin’ around”, I almost fell out of my chair.

Watching it twice, it seems to me like the cop really didn’t mean to thrust the guy *through* the window. None of his actions before or after that moment had that sort of escalation of force. I think he was just trying to shove him up firm against the wall, but he clearly did it too hard, and the window isn’t a wall.

That doesn’t excuse the action, but there’s definitely a big difference between a mistake/lapse of judgment, versus consistent and deliberate use of excessive force.

Cop needs to be more careful, and take something off that wall-shove fastball.

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