My last word on the subject..
Zim makes an interesting point as did everyone else.
Here is what I think SHOULD HAVE HAPPENED.
This woman was obviously being CHARGED with SOME crime or she would not have been in cuffs and at what looks like the precinct somewhere inside.
I don't like police being assaulted by anyone, ever.
If you are the officer, you like it even less.
The woman was cuffed and already under arrest and likely going to face charges for whatever landed her there to start with.
All this young cop had to do was simply to add assaulting a police officer to the other charges she is facing and let the judge sort it out.
She would get additional timee for the kicking incident.
Would the cop physically feel better? Nope.
But he would have had the last laugh...
That is how I see it.
Like Zim, I was raised poor in an area in cincinnati that we could leave the doors unlocked in the small sears roebuck frame house I grew up in, all four rooms. We were taught to respect the police, firefighters, postal carriers, and everyone else that was older than us.
Somehow this did not get repeated in enough other communities across the country...