calif officer punches gang offender.

Has anyone seen the scene where the officer punches the gang member. Does it appears to be excessive force.
I have seen it over and over and I do not see "excessive force" If he could not breath, he could not have been able to say; "I con't breath" and why should the police have believe him. This man was still a threat., considering the man is not fully restrained. If he had been handcuffed, then I would say it was excessive force.
The was a known violent gang member and any force should have been used to restrain him in hand cuffs.
This criminal will sue the police department and collect million.

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/11/ ... S._2170342

Excessive police force.
There is no evidence that the man was restrained until two of his friends came over and told him to “stop struggling.” Then the officers were able to cuff him and restrain him. Pepper spray did not faze him. Beyond shooting him, this thug was not going to be restrained.
They taping consisted of only a few seconds that the man was being punched and not what happened prior or after being restrained. It did show the man struggling and un-restrained.
No charged should be brought against these officers that was doing a dangerous job. They should be given a medal and to the two border patrol agent, too.

I agree dyehard, my daughter is a cop. I went down to watch them practice their take downs one time while she was in the academy and two guys went at it on their own, the "cop" lost the fight and I went over to him after is was done and told him he could have won, at one point he had his elbow on the "bad guys' chin and I said if he would have put it on the guys throat he would have had him, while I understood this was just practice and he didn't want to hurt his friend in real life you may need to do these things just to stay alive. I told them all that what they are doing is a job and there is no job worth losing your life over.