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I personally witnessed a situation I thought the police handled poorly a couple of years ago at the waterfront.  Some skinny kid in his late teens jumped off a large boat parked by the waterfront and started swimming.  He may have been trying to burglarize the boat.  The police fished him out of the water and 4 burly cops surrounded him.  It was obvious that he was high on something.  When he didn't promptly obey their commands, instead of just cuffing him, those four big cops twisted and pinched and yelled at that poor kid.

 

There objective seemed to be to punish him for not obeying them, not to move the situation forward.  Finally they cuffed him and put him in a patrol car.  It was unnecessary and could have resulted in some injuries for him

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