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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]As is so often the case with these videos we don't know the full context.  What we see in the video is a felony stop where the police officers are approaching the suspect with guns drawn and order the suspect to exit the vehicle. This is not the default approach to a routine traffic stop, which tells us something has transpired before the arrival of the officer wearing the body cam that we have video of.

The suspect is non-compliant and argues at length with the officers that he doesn't have to follow their directives, refuses to leave his vehicle, tells the police to "keep their hands off me," resists arrest, etc.

[b]That the suspect is in the military and in uniform has nothing to do with anything.  [/b]

Being in uniform doesn't change a thing when you are interacting with the police.  Tons of service members get arrested off base for all manner of things in uniform and out.  (and yes, largely for traffic violations, drunk driving, etc)

[b]Characterizing this as "white cops harass and pepper spray black Army lieutenant," is characteristic of just how screwed up our society is on race relations right now.  [/b]

Why insert race into this?  Are white cops allowed to enforce the law? Are black army lieutenants obligated to follow the law and obey lawful directives when interacting with the police?

What if the police are -gasp- white, does a black army lieutenant still need to obey their commands at a traffic stop?

There is no evidence that race played a role in this interaction evident in the video.

Finally, he was not "attacked."  He refused to comply with the police at length during a traffic stop.  He was eventually pepper sprayed, which seemed to prompt him to at least get out of the car, after which point he refused to cooperate further and resisted arrest, before finally being taken into custody.  The one officer should be counseled on his language, but this is hardly a case of police brutality.

All the suspect had to do was get out of the car and cooperate.

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Your assumption that something transpired is...an assumption. You don’t know that something transpired beforehand. SMH[/quote]

"Something [i]must[/i] have transpired to make the cop mad because cops are heroes."[/quote]

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