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[quote=Anonymous]They released the body cam video on this. The cop didn't brutalize the student. The worst you can say is that the cop should've asked nicely a third time for the guy to step away from the woman whose phone and wallet he took

Dave Bangert has good coverage of the new information. (He's a former journalist for the local paper who runs a Substack since his retirement): https://davebangert.substack.com/p/special-prosecutor-purdue-officer?s=r

The officer was on the scene because someone had phoned in a potential domestic abuse situation.  The person calling into the police said, “woman in driver’s seat, guy outside of door screaming really loud. … I think she’s trying to leave. He won’t let her leave.” When the officer arrived on the scene, the student, Adonis Tuggle, said the girlfriend (who was in the car) had "been acting f**king crazy." When asked why he had her phone and wallet, Tuggle told the officer, "Because she’s not listening to me, and I’m trying to get her attention.”

The officer tells Tuggle to move behind the car. He ignores that. The officer tells him again and advises Tuggle that if he doesn't, he'll be handcuffed. Tuggle ignores him again. The officer puts the handcuffs on one arm then, when he goes to put them on the second arm, Tuggle starts resisting. From the footage, it doesn't look like a great deal of force is being used, but Tuggle starts screaming like a soccer player trying to draw a penalty.

The rest has been pretty well described in the earlier discussion. Tuggle's girlfriend released a small part of the incident and he went on social media trying to drum up support. As the special prosecutor put it,  Tuggle released the out of context video in an attempt to “help him evade responsibility for his behavior and shift the narrative to one where “suddenly the police are using unreasonable force on a Black man.”

“He shifted the whole narrative,” Cummings said. “It's all on video, and I can tell the person responsible for that conflict is Mr. Tuggle. … What the officer did to get control of that situation was not unreasonable, particularly in light of the fact that Mr. Tuggle was not injured.”
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