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*for pushing a police officer

In the video, the policeman is very clearly just standing there, doing his job providing security, and the guy walks straight into the cop and then tries to claim “you pushed into me.”

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OnlyTakesLs@sh.itjust.works ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
No, he accidentally walked into him while looking a different direction. It was clearly an accident. He didnt push him.

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PrincessEli@reddthat.com ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Are you blind, or just a worthless bootlicker? It’s literally on video, proving you wrong.

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MomoTimeToDie@sh.itjust.works ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Lmao you’re blind

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awwwyissss@lemm.ee ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Yeah he was being an asshole. The cop kind of was too but… purposely walk into someone on a public sidewalk and you lose my sympathy.

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- mo_ztt@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Yeah. You’re supposed to be aggressive as a journalist; you don’t have to be nice. But everyone was fine with him being in her face and asking questions; that’s his job. Then when he entered a physical contest with the cop to try to get where he was going, oh look! It became an issue.
  
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  - awwwyissss@lemm.ee ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Treat a cop badly and he might screw up your day… not surprising.
    
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- mo_ztt@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  It’s easily possible that the cop engineered the whole thing by standing in a strategic spot knowing full well that Mr. Safarihat was going to walk right into him. Cop was still standing still at the time of the bumpage.
  
  Also, I’m from the US, so I was floored by how polite the arrest was. Cop #1 was downright passive-aggressive about it. Down here that move of saying “What are you talking about? How am I under arrest?” combined with physical resistance meets with at the bare minimum getting slammed against the car and your arms manhandled around behind your back. Usually you get thrown face-down on the pavement with a bunch of people on top of you too.
  
  I’m not saying it should to be that way, that’s just what I’ve observed. Up in Canada they literally let go of him for a while and had a whole conversation with him about it during while he got to keep his microphone in hand and wave it around at them.
  
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