[subego]

Police Brutality - Handled the Way It Should Be - YouTube

Strikes me that the best way to deal with this would have been to say "stop or we'll taze you", and if he didn't stop, taze him.

To be clear, I think it's basic common sense that someone will resist if being beaten, therefore beating someone is not an ideal means with which to stop resistance.

[turtle777]

Do we know for sure this was police, and not just private security ?

-t

[subego]

Oh FFS...

Work with me.

[Shaddim]

It appears that something needs to be done about the stadium security. Maybe call the police?

[subego]

An ambulance.

[BLAZE_MkIV]

Don't call the police. Call one of those, "We don't make money unless you make money" lawyers. Money is the language of business. Their insurance carrier will force them through all kind of hoops and training etc so their premiums don't explode. Even if you don't win.

[moonmonkey]

I don't need to watch the video to know that the authorities are correct and the member of the public is wrong.
The public so are hopped up on choo choo juice they don't know their own names.

[Waragainstsleep]

I don't know where that video was shot but in the UK, the guys around the stadia who look like police are police. The clubs have to subsidise the costs and they do have their own people as well (though typically not with any kind of truncheons) but there are always real police officers in and around the grounds on matchdays. Don't know about other countries.

[Waragainstsleep]

Originally Posted by moonmonkey 

I don't need to watch the video to know that the authorities are correct and the member of the public is wrong.
The public so are hopped up on choo choo juice they don't know their own names.

Maybe you do need to watch it. Nobody had a problem until the scrawny pitch invader with 5 cops/security guys sat on top of him was getting repeatedly jabbed by one of them with a baton. Completely unnecessary.

[subego]

Originally Posted by Waragainstsleep 

I don't know where that video was shot but in the UK, the guys around the stadia who look like police are police. The clubs have to subsidise the costs and they do have their own people as well (though typically not with any kind of truncheons) but there are always real police officers in and around the grounds on matchdays. Don't know about other countries.

At the basketball games I used to go to, the security guys were all moonlighting off-duty cops.

[ghporter]

Sign Dude (60 kilos soaking wet?) did not require FOUR big footballers to tackle him, hold him down, and have at least one hammer him with a night stick in the ribs maybe 10 times. Any one of those thugs could have laid the guy down, cuffed him, and walked him off in a third of the time it took for them to outrage the crowd.

Nowhere in the video did I see any other uniformed presence coming to "restore order." Which could mean the real police figured they'd mop things up after the crowd got done, or the people on the field were police and their buddies figured they didn't want their own heads to get kicked in. Either way, it is possible (though not at all certain) that stadium security will not be nearly as rough the next time some college kid wants to run across the field with a sign cheering his favorite team.

[Waragainstsleep]

Originally Posted by subego 

At the basketball games I used to go to, the security guys were all moonlighting off-duty cops.

That happens too, but to a lesser extent since I think the cops get overtime or some other perks for pulling stadium duty. Even if its just the best seats in the house.