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Originally Posted by speeder
That was my main impression. Holy balls. If three (3) fairly large cops can't get cuffs on a guy who looks like the Pillsbury dough boy because he's squirming away from them like a little girl, WTF are they going to do when the Vagos start fighting the Mongols or something?
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They could get the cuffs on him, and in fact they did. Didn't you see the end of the video?
Could they have done it quicker? Sure, one blow to the head with the baton and it's done in 3 seconds. Or while he's squirming around, a quick hard yank to the arm while your knee is in his back, and he's cuffed. Of course, you'd probably end up breaking his arm, dislocating his shoulder or otherwise seriously injuring him. A chokehold to unconsciousness with the baton would have worked, too.
If their goal was to quickly cuff him, without regard to injuring him, they could have easily done it any number of ways. With the physical manhandling, they were for the most part being pretty gentle with him. They finally used the taser as a non-lethal way to get him to comply, without having to crack his skull. Seemed to work ok.
As it was, they took a little more time, but neither he, the cops or anyone else got hurt, and he was taken away.
I don't know what Vagos or Mongols are, but that sounds serious. If it were to escalate, what would the cops do? I suspect they'd then use those firearms they always carry around.