re: Pregnant Woman Slammed to Ground and Arrested for Refusing to Give Her Name

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Looked to me like the officers acted appropriately.

If we want our cops to be street level arbiters of angry confrontations between people, then we should expect a level of cooperation. If people are uncooperative, I have no problem with cops making arrests for minor misdemeanor resisting an officer type charges.

If we don't want officers to get involved in those incidents, then we can expect more people to escalate those interactions with violence. It's all a part of being a member of a civil society. Cooperate with the cops, especially when they are being reasonable, or else expect to get arrested.

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So better safe than sorry? Nothing questionable really happened until he put his hands on her. She was emotionally charged, but she was not a threat. The situation could have been handled more patiently and gently, and it still seems odd that a judge dropped the charges yet nothing happened to the cops.