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comment by thenewgreen

I agree Steve. When I watched this I thought to myself, "what an asshole!" The thing is, I was thinking that about the guy with the camera and not the cop. You ask, should he have his gun raised? I think the answer is clearly no. However, I'm not sure that mine would not be raised in that situation. You never know how you will react and you are most certainly correct that he would probably rather be at home with his family. As for him yelling obscenities, that's completely inappropriate for a police officer, however on a human level I completely understand it. If enough people were screaming at me in hatred and anger I'd want to respond with" go fuck yourself" as well.