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I agree with this comment:

"An officer in a situation alone which is clearly not under control has someone step up and try to help the suspect get free. Now the officer has to deal with 2 immediate threats. Remember there is no way to tell the level of those threats at the time but he can't deal with 2 at the same time so what should you do? Immobolize one of the threats. Now if I am correct once you touch someone without their permission it is consider battery. So the 2nd suspect agressivly approached the officer and her actions were agressive as well. The officer defended himself by immobolizing her with a non leathel method. But what is going to happen is this will be turned into a race issue. SPD will be criticized again and no one will look at the facts. None of the suspects took direction or commands from the officer so using his "inside voice" would have fallen on deaf ears. I feel his actions were appropriate for the situation."

People always sit back and throw in our two cents on videos like this (racism, excessive force, etc.), but we weren't there so we don't know the exact circumstances that the officer had to deal with. If I had to deal with those 2 though, I would have thrown a punch in there as well, maybe a taser for good measure.