Comment by quickthrowman
6 hours ago
https://www.reddit.com/r/50501/comments/1qjf1vc/observer_bei...
This person is face down on the ground being restrained by three officers. Is the pepper spray necessary here?
6 hours ago
https://www.reddit.com/r/50501/comments/1qjf1vc/observer_bei...
This person is face down on the ground being restrained by three officers. Is the pepper spray necessary here?
With just a single frame to go off of, I can't tell. There's not enough information there.
edit: I found a video of this event: https://old.reddit.com/r/minnesota/comments/1qjfxbj/ice_pepp...
It doesn't show what led up to this moment, but it appears the person was indeed resisting arrest. If you are not resisting arrest, you don't need three officers to pin you to the ground.
> If you are not resisting arrest, you don't need three officers to pin you to the ground.
If three officers decide to push you to the ground and jump on top of you, you have three officers on top of you. This says nothing about whether you were resisting arrest or not.
Resisting arrest at least implies that you have some understanding that you are actually being arrested and by someone who at least notionally has some legal basis for doing so. It's why police officers will typically identify themselves and tell you under what you are suspected of during an arrest. If after that someone attempts to flee or fightback then sure.
I'm relatively sure spraying chemical irritants at point blank range is not following any reasonable use of force guidelines. They are just retaliating with force because it suits them.