http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=pl ... OeWwldfYOA

For the life of me, I can't see any wrongdoing by the cops on this one. In fact I'd say it was a great demonstration of restraint on their part.

I don't think the cop should have hit her, but even with video it's tough to know what's really going on ... we don't know what was happening before the filming started.

The strike to the back of the head is a proper strike, because it is not above the ear (minimizing the brain injury possibility), it was avoiding the back of the neck for spine injury, and was used to stun, and only possibly dislocate the jaw.

Perhaps the jaw not working would have benefited the situation...

haha, I live in Rochester, this is all we have heard on the tv and radio.
The head slap was absolutely as the police are instructed to do in such a situation. What is also not seen, this woman had a can of pepper spray! She resisted arrest and it turned crazy, listen closely and you will hear someone yelling at the cop calling him a "white cracker". I do not know a single white person who finds fault with this, I have so far heard only a very few black people who agree, it's being portrayed as a racial issue that simply is anything but!

oh, and when in court, she pulled the same indignant nonsense slamming her hands on the desk, yelling at the judge, screaming, cursing... the judge would have none of it and sent her back to her jail cell! (you don't hear those things do you? the pepper spray gets unreported, the court shenanigans, etc)

Our man on the scene in Rochester ... all, thx for the info on appropriate cop behavior.

I'm the kind of guy who puts his hands up when a mall cop says boo so don't expect me to explain resisting arrest.

I don't by any means condone mistreatment of women, especially pregnant women. That said: an unborn baby is extremely well-protected in the mother's womb. Nothing shown on the video would have posed a threat to the baby. Placing emphasis on the baby is - at least from what we can see - little more than inflammatory in this case.