"They planned to ticket a jogging woman, and ordered her to stop. But she was wearing earbuds and couldn’t hear them.
The officers chased the woman down and grabbed her arm from behind. Not knowing what was happening, the woman pulled away from the officer. This meant that she was resisting, and the woman soon found herself sitting on the ground in handcuffs.
Local man Chris Quintero watched the incident from a coffee ship window, and was irritated by the police officers’ behavior. He snapped a picture of the woman during her arrest."
This is the part that bothers me as I run with ear buds. I would not have expected to be grabbed from behind and my natural reaction would have been to pull away. According to the witness, this is what she did and was immediately thrown to the ground, handcuffed and charged with resisting. The officer overreacted, turning a very minor infraction into an arrest. Why is this news? Because the officer handled it very poorly.
She was jaywalking for god sakes. The officer saw that she didn't hear him, how do you not expect her to react when blindly grabbed from behind? The Chief of Police said she found herself in cuffs because she cussed? Forget that the officer had to have told him that and that it directly contradicts what the witness said he saw, do we want to arrest people for cussing? Or jaywalking?
The officer handled the situation poorly, that's why it's news and why we're talking about it.
That is all, good day Sir!
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