Good thing the street wasn’t the border and even better that she didn’t have a rock to throw at the cop. Then things could have went horribly wrong.
I’m embarrassed for you, you fucking smarmy pedant. The writer said “affect the escape” probably because that’s what he meant (as in affect the arrest, not effect the arrest). Both usages are grammatically correct, they just have different meanings. I’ll grant you that “aid the escape” would be standard usage in this case. But you can’t effect someone else’s escape as Pleonast correctly pointed out. And yes, your google comparison is pointless. Since the have different meanings you’d expect one to be more common than the other. Dumbass.
What we need is for some police man to come into this thread and punch all the grammar Nazis right in the pixels.
Bravo! 
Finally. FINALLY !! (Wherethehell is the thumbs up smiley??)
I think that pedestrians who hide behind the idiotic “state law must stop for pedestrians” thing in order to jaywalk without even looking, just because they can should not only be punched in the face, but punched in the face with a fucking car grill.
Well, it seems obvious that you would be more put out by having to slow down your vehicle, than the fact that you had just ran over a jaywalker, so that’s hardly surprising.
WHAT THE JUDICIAL SYSTEM MEANS TO ME
When some one is bad the police ofiser says your under a rest. And the bad person says no you are under a rest. Then they police take them to cort. And if the person acts bad the judje tells them your out of order. And the bad person say no im not out of order your out of order? this whole cort is out of order!! And the judje and every body laughed becuase it was so funny. and the juge says cort ajurned. And every body gos to eat choclit ice cream. THE END. :)
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—Contributed by** Ivan Astikov** (age unknown)*
It’s poetry, pure poetry, you write.
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Affect? Effect?
Will you two please take your grammer nazi slap fight somewhere else?
I say you’re both wrong and it should be offect.
There. Now pit that. Just do it somewhere else.
Not grammar Nazis, vocabulary Nazis. Get it right! 
And yet you failed to offer a viable alternative. Do you think any force from him would have been seen as too much? What if he just maced them both? What if he threw her to the ground and cuffed her? My point is, once it got to the level where someone assaults an officer I would say he had to respond by arresting them. Since they wouldn’t accept a ticket , do you think they would have cooperated with being arrested?
They need to know in no uncertain terms that while you can disagree with an officer you don’t treat them like some smuck on the street that pisses you off. Cooperate and file a complaint if you want to, but don’t assault them.
The best thing a cop can do is not react out of anger and this may have been anger, but cops are human. Either way, I think with the video and the whole jaywalking angle any response would have been newsworthy.
Did you just anti-nazi nazi?
Yes.
I’ve never understood pedestrians who, in certain circumstances , have the right of way, and then ASSUME the car is AUTOMATICALLY going to give it to them.
Yeah, they HAVE the right of way, but thats gonna do them damn little good when they get run over. In a car vs pedestrian battle the car wins everytime.
I always assume the cars will not yield right of way, if not assume they are actually trying to hit me.
So you don’t think if he ignored being assaulted and tried to continue to cuff girl #1 he would have been puished again? We can’t know but that sounds like wishfull thinking.
I think if he had warned them both, {maybe he already had} with ," you’ve just assaulted a police officer. Do you really want to make this a lot worse? You’ve got 5 seconds to calm down and cooperate before you get charged with something a lot more serious than jaywalking"
Of course that’s a total guess and it may not have made things any better other than for the camera and his appearence of being professional. I also think reacting to subdue someone who has just assaulted an officer is an acceptable response. He might have chosen a better course of action, but she/they were the ones who broke the law and then escalated the situation.
The worst thing a cop can do is act in anger. He is supposed to be in control of himself and the situation. He was neither. He was lucky his actions did not cause a mini-riot.
Do you people hit women in the face when they don’t follow orders? I have never struck a woman and don’t see how you can be so casual about a poorly trained cop making an error.
Whatever degree of “assault” you think this terribly dangerous woman perpetrated on this poor defensive cop, you have to admit he went over the line.
I agree with this, I would have preferred he did something that got control of the situation faster (the punch seemed to escalate the situation, not defuse it.). If sweeping the leg was more effective, that seems to be a better solution, even if it does have a higher risk of injury.
You don’t jaywalk in Seattle. Everyone either has gotten or knows someone who has gotten a jaywalking ticket. It has always been that way. They knew it. They were very much in the wrong to begin with. And then assaulting an officer on top of it made them even more wrong.
Are you talking about Clinton? Is this a new Godwin’s law, that every discussion about laws and morality will eventually boil down to the Clinton blowjobs?
Just watched it again. Several people standing around did not interfere. My guess is they knew this hysterical woman refusing to cooperate with an officer was not something they should interfere with. Unfortunatly the 2nd girl wasn’t that smart. I also notice someone trying to keep 2nd girl from interfering and she pulls away.
I noticed that after throwing the punch the officer seems very clam and in control. He repeatedly asks the struggling girl to stop struggling because he doesn’t want to injure her. If he was just pissed off he could have thrown her to the ground. Instead he IMO patiently holds her and keeps asking her to cooperate to avoid injuring her. He is calm in his speech.
I also noticed when people are critisizing him for the punch a bystander defends him by saying “with good reason” “she laid her hands on him” and others respond “no she didn’t” um…yeah she sure as fuck did.
He threw one punch when he could have been a lot more violent. He remained calm in his communication and tried not to hurt anyone more than the situation called for. I’m with him on this.