First point ... have you seen the video of the punk running his mouth about the moon landing being a hoax? He's yelling at Buzz Aldren and telling him it was a hoax and he's a liar and Buzz popped him in the mouth. Loved it.
Second ... I'm not making light of this, but it reminds me of a line in Harlem Nights "Sure, that's what we'll put on your tombstone 'he's dead but wasn't no punk' "
I go back to the screenings for cops. Surely they get a similar reaction at least 50% of the time they make a stop, so what causes them to snap? I find some of this paradoxical because you constantly hear from cops at how any traffic stop could be their last and everything like that ... and I'm not saying they should approach it fearfully, but if you truly think that every situation is dangerous and any routine traffic stop could be your last, why would you deliberately escalate a situation? Would it not make sense to de-escalate it and try to calm the person down?
But, I've never been a cop ... there's got to be a point where you get tired of the ****. And you never know what else might be going on in somebody's life. Maybe he just found out his wife had breast cancer, or a baby just died from SIDS or anything else. We all have stuff to deal with, including cops.
