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You better think twice about being a cop, then. They routinely have to deal with the scum of society. Why do you think they get such violent attitudes? After a few years of arguing with junkies, punks, and drunks, you get pretty fed up. Wait till you "easily (and less painfully) physically subdue" some wiseass and he gets an elbow loose and knocks some of your teeth out. You're not getting paid to be nice. People should show some respect to the law and its enforcers. Or they could get tasered 
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I understand that there are situations that require use of force like tasers, but I think that this was not one of those situations. Look, this was a bunch of College Cops forcing someone to leave because he didn't have a school ID card, not Chicago Police fighting it out with a coked up maniac. No, the cops aren't being paid to be nice, but they are being paid to be fair and this wasn't fair. The only time I have personally watched a belligerent person being arrested was in London, outside an underground station, and the drunk as a skunk college age kid was quickly efficiently and fairly forced to the ground by a Metropolitan Police officer (without anything more high tech than a billy club) and that was that. A little bit of wrestling and a fair amount of swearing on the part of both combatants but the end result was a good fair arrest. I would be more than willing to do the same in order to ensure the safety and fairness of the arrest as a police officer. This incident at UCLA was ludicrously unnecessary.