🥵Man on ground being handcuffed: "Why are you being so rough with me?"
👮♀️Officer: Because you refuse to listen and turned away from me."
In 2018 in Wasilla, Alaska, a man stood on the public sidewalk outside the Office of Children’s Services holding a sign and protesting what he called the agency “kidnapping kids.”
He had already been asked to leave the office inside. Staff wanted him trespassed, but they never got authorization from the property manager.
A Wasilla officer approached him on the sidewalk, immediately grabbed his arm, ordered him to put his hands behind his back, then took him to the ground hard and arrested him.
The officer treated it as trespassing even though the man was on public property and was not resisting.
Subsequently the officers realized he was not on trespass notice and even if he had been he remained on the sidewalk.
No news story identifies the protester or the officer.
There is no reported lawsuit against the city or the officer. There is no reported internal investigation
❓What do you think about the officer saying his "training and 11 years of experience" taught him that someone turning toward him justifies a hard and fast take down?
❓Was that a justifiable officer-safety-takedown or was that a dick move against a man not resisting?
❓What crime did the officer believe he was stopping the man on the sidewalk from committing?