I don’t know if you noticed but a police car pulled up to him.
You have that if you arrest a black kid for walking in the roadway, then its going to be preceived as either being racially motivated or just petty. The vast majority of police officers would not even bother with something like that....and it would have to be illegal to begin with. Walking in the roadway is only illegal if you are impeding traffic which there is none...unless you consider the police car as traffic and he moved out of the way when it came. The street is not marked with designated crossing zones so its also not jaywalking.
The fact is that once he determined that he wasnt involved in any criminal activity, he should have wrote up a report for record keeping purposes and drove away like 99% of other police officers. He lacks the temperament to do the job and he let this silly kid get under his skin and he reacted badly. He walked up to him and threw him down.
He's only on the job because there is an investigation and is prob on administrative duty . But he's going to be fired although he'd likely resign and just go to another PD.
You people can make all the arguments you want. Ive had inmates yell and curse at me practically every day...that doesnt give me the right to go push their shit in...only when they spit on me like Derek Anthony or when i was attacked is when i layed a beating on them because they commited a criminal act