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Had the cops who actually broke up the fight had to taser or shoot someone, would sematics matter then?
You bet, this thread wouldn't even exist even had the cop defused the tension afterward.
Please, this thread was started by someone who hasn't had much good to say about any police action, suddenly this one pops up and has nothing to do with the title?
Oh gee, just how does that happen?
Semantics only matter when its advantageous right?
The commentary of the OP has absolutely nothing to do with breaking up the fight.
Neither does the story.
It paints a picture that isn't true on any level.
What actually broke up the fight? Then lets see how flattering all those clapping are. Then we'll instead read how the cops brutalized the teens.
This is anything but a thread about applauding the police, it is about trying to say that this type of action broke up a fight, it did not.
Otherwise known as factually incorrect and untruthful.
How do you know the police didn't break it up to begin with?
Not so it is about applauding the police. It appears you are trying to rewrite the context, we all get what was being applauded. Not the breaking up of a fight but the dance off afterwards.
The de-escalation of tensions after the fight is one thing and handled well but then that was not the intent of the thread regardless of others posts claiming it was.
No mention that the cops were reacting to lawlessness which included a fight requiring police action. The lawless behavior was glossed over and if it wasn't even part of the story.
The OP isn't stupid, the thread title wasn't a mistake, it was designed to portray that instead of other tactics, maybe dancing and joking are used to stop fights. Nothing could be further from wrong. To be clear, it isn't about the cop, this is about trying tonuse this incident to contrast use of force incidents which are not the same, here the fight was already over.
Dance and laugh and joking is fine, after the violence of the fight is stopped.
The title was misleading, on purpose and the intent to basically say "see, cops don't need to use force to break up fights, they can joke, dance and be jovial" Not really and not in this incident either.
have you EVER had a positive comment about ANYTHING??
how do we know that those that remained behind weren't waiting to get the fight going again??
The fight was just stopped by the cops, the tensions were high, this female cop de-escalated the situation in a light hearted and friendly way. An admirable and exemplary behavior and I for one salute her for this.
We don't pay our cops to preform hoochie-coochie dances in the streets.
How do you know the police didn't break it up to begin with?
Not so it is about applauding the police. It appears you are trying to rewrite the context, we all get what was being applauded. Not the breaking up of a fight but the dance off afterwards.
Why so technical?
Why so technical? How about because in every other thread about the police where force was used, everything is technical, especially from the perspective of the OP and the same people who now complain about semantics.
Why so technical? Either the fight was broken up by this action or it wasn't. What part of that is so difficult?
Either something happened or it didn't. What this cop did had nothing to do with what the cops who broke up the fight did.
When a cop says they feared for their life, oh how the pile on starts about semantics and accuracy and the truth. Now, suddenly none of that matters.
Read the article.
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