I understand what you're saying, I don't agree with it all but some...now answer a few of my questions...
1) How many time should an officer "have" to ask someone to leave a volatile scene?
2) what should be the consequence from the Officer if they don't leave?
3) what should the consequence be if they resist?
The scene was not volatile. You're acting as if that girl was doing something illegal. The officer made the scene volatile. The girl was an invited guest and was walking away. Unlike tcas I don't assume that because police wear heavy shit that them running means there is some illegal shit going on.
Here's the deal sports, the entire fracas was started by a white resident shooting racial slurs. If the cop's pull up and get in the P.A. and ask those kids to disperse while they address the woman that started and was involved in the trouble, none of this would have happened. Instead, what you see and the only thing you see is an out of control officer detaining black kids. Not white kids, no, black ones. I don't know how many times he should have asked them to leave but he was cursing, screaming, yelling, all the things you're asserting that the kids did that was so disrespectful. So how is it that the cop can do it and punch and hit when he is just a citizen held to the exact same laws as her. Why do we automatically excuse his actions that undoubtedly raised the level of chaos and indict a 14 year old girl that didn't act nearly as threatening as him?
The girl was not charged with any crime. You know why? She didn't commit one, he most certainly did.
His actions are inexcusable. I don't care how many "white residents" you find that will agree with his actions, they aren't an authority on the situation.
How many times do we have to hear and see entire communities and cultures thrown into a frenzy over this type of behavior for white America to admit that there's an issue of abuse of authority and racism towards them from law enforcement? How many of those are enough?
On another note, why is Casebolt the only one losing his shit? Why did another officer calmly tell other kids, "just don't run when you are police"?
Secondly, who says that an officer screaming at you to "sit on your ass" without cause means you have to be complicit? Who? If an officer told me to do that, I wouldn't comply any more than I would submit to a random search, give my i.d up, move on down the road or any of that. They are citizens, they have rights. The kids were within their inalienable rights granted them by the bill of rights. A cop does NOT HAVE AUTHORITY TO VIOLATE YOUR CIVIL RIGHTS just because he's creating a scene. Why wasn't he investigating the cause?
Cop: Get on the ground and sit on your ass.
Me: Am I being detained and for what crime?
Cop: I said get on your ass.
Me: and that is the second time you've used vulgar language directed at me so if I'm not being detained for committing a crime, you have a better day somewhere else.
AND I WOULD BE IN FULL COMPLIANCE of all laws. Not sure why everyone is looking for reasons to excuse this officer's behavior when they have a great example of an officer doing a great job of controlling the scene just off this assholes shoulder.
I'm amazed at it really.