content: I'll give you, that looks bad and certainly wasn't warranted, but why are we assuming this video's title is accurate? The guys screaming about getting it on tape and suing, do you really think this was just a polite dude calmly addressing the cop before the video kicks in? Really? You can take the 'doesn't justify the use of force' route and argue that whatever he did before this kicks in didn't warrant thie beating, and I'd be hard pressed to come up with something that would. But even the craziest, power-mad cop doesn't go from conversation to mace to tazer to ground beating on a whim. If you want this stuff to stop (and let's face it, we all do) you need to look as objectively as possible at the events and find where actual changes could be made to tactics or officer recruiting or whatever to see some kind of difference.  If you just read the title, watch the video and react, you come into it with less information than you need and we end up right back at the start. This case goes away, cop gets an individual punishment that is more likely to be a slap on the wrist than not, and nothing changes.