If that was your wife he was man handling, what then? I know (and actually want to agree) with what you are saying but you can't always extricate your loved ones. You can't always wait till its safe. Complaints don't help when your wife is paralyzed or dead because a bad cop is man handling somebody out of anger or worse. If you can, back off, but if that were my daughter, I don't know that I could stand by and watch. Then you would have a dead father protecting his family on video with cops trying to tow the thin blue line? Great we all lose... Or cops and PD's can stop looking at everyone as a nail to their hammer. We are the ones you (the general you) are suposed to be protecting.

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I don't believe GK is implying that the officer was correct on his actions. In fact, I'd go so far as to say that everyone who sees that video will acknowledge that the officer was clearly out of control. [ETA: Except, maybe Hotchef]

I think what GK is trying to say is that becoming engaged in that situation could realistically, at a minimum, result in an arrest up to and including having that out of control officer shoot you dead. Corporal Casebolt appeared to be the senior officer on site and the other officer, while not out of control, were following his lead. Other than complying with his demands, any other behavior by anyone engaged would have not been good for that individual. Had I been there, I would have first sought to extricate any family members from the situation, if possible, and from a safe distance I would have remained to be the best witness I possibly could and pursue complaints or other courses of action after the fact. Anything else would put you into a no win situation.