Cop in America doing a bad job, again

Fairly sure he slapped the phone, not its owner.

Would love to know the background to this. The details are intriguing. Something about interrupting a church service because of a traffic cone?!?

As far as I understand it, which is probably very little or not at all, slapping someone would actually be battery, while threats would be assault. Not sure what slapping the phone out of someone's hand would be, but probably something?
 
As far as I understand it, which is probably very little or not at all, slapping someone would actually be battery, while threats would be assault. Not sure what slapping the phone out of someone's hand would be, but probably something?

I’m compelled to make a terrible dad joke about how slapping a smartphone makes no difference to its battery.

Sorry.

It’s a curse really.
 
"May have had a vape pen", I guess we'll be seeing that argument in this thread in the future.

Understandable. The officer obviously feared for his life and lung cancer from second hand smoke is no joke. Good shoot in my book.
 


The money for these things should come out of the wages and pensions for the police, not from the taxpayers money that could be better spent elsewhere. If all the police started feeling the consequences of their actions maybe something might change.
 
The money for these things should come out of the wages and pensions for the police, not from the taxpayers money that could be better spent elsewhere. If all the police started feeling the consequences of their actions maybe something might change.

Maybe, but that's also letting the employer (the city, the county, whatever) off the hook. They're responsible for training, guidelines, etc. If people don't want their tax money to go to settling lawsuits, they should vote for people or measures that can fix the problem.