The Savannah St. Patrick's Day Police Beating

St. Patrick's day is always a wild and crazy time in the city of Savannah, but this year an arrest made headlines over the way officers handled arresting two suspects. This has caused a huge controversy right now sparking debate on how the police handle suspects, the arresting officer has been put on administrative leave as they investigate the matter; but do you think the arrest was justified or was this a case of police brutality.

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In the first video, we see two girls jumping one girl, the male suspect in the case proceeds to kick at the car and then slam the door of the car into the girl being attacked.

Now, the cops arrive. There's no telling what they saw while arriving on the scene. Officer #1 Proceeds to arrest the female suspect in green, she's very compliant as he handcuffs her. Officer #2 tries to arrest the male suspect, he refuses to get on the ground so he's hit with the baton and maced. The female suspect in red grabs him from behind (wrong move, you never ever do that to a cop!)I guess to get him to stop and she's hit several times as well as maced before running away (at one point she has her hands behind her back, according to one cop that saw the video; any cop would suspect her of going for a weapon), people in the crowd tell her to run; but she's intoxicated or can't see so she doesn't take the suggestion until it's too late. By then the Officer #2 see's her trying to leave the scene and grabs her by the pants back to the area where she trips over his legs and falls to the ground, but it looks like she's being slammed before she's handcuffed.

Some are calling this a case of police brutality and demanding that the officer should be fired, others say that the situation wouldn't have escalated had the other two suspects been more compliant like the female suspect in green. What's your opinion?

They were completely out of line.

Sad but true: This is nothing new. To me, it's better to do what they want so you can get away and file a complaint later, rather than get arrested or worse.