On: Virginia Police Caught Assaulting Teens, Video Deletion Fails

[aidos]

Not smart? They're 17 year old kids, smart was generally not our forte at that age. I know it certainly wasn't mine :)

Smart or not doesn't really matter. The adults in the situation, whose job title is more or less "serve and protect," should have acted responsibly.

Though, the fact that the cops tried to delete the video suggests that they themselves fear that their actions where not entirely legal.

[oh_sigh → aidos]

Strangely, I and everyone I knew at 17 managed to make it through 17 without resisting arrest.

[aidos → oh_sigh]

So you didn't deal with cops using excessive force and then deleting your video evidence? Well neither did I, but that doesn't prove anything.

[oh_sigh → aidos]

The question is still open as to whether the officers deleted the video evidence, and it didn't look like excessive force to me, considering the kid was flailing around and actively resisting the officers lawful orders.

I hope the cop is punished or fired if he deleted the video evidence, but that is still up in the air whether that happened or not.