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>>444057 It only took him a moment to beat him off with the baton, how this gets in the way of "doing better things", I have no clue. If anything, I'm sure that idiot had plenty of better things to do than to actively seek out a cop to pester and taunt in order for him to get the crap beat out of him. The cop was in the green here, no doubt about it.
Freedom of speech does not give you the right to mock and taunt people on the street, nor does it give you the right to provoke law enforcement into forceful action. It's designed so people can present their thoughts to the people and their government in a constructive manner, so that the government and country can change for the good of it's people. I'm tired of watching people use the right of Speech as a scapegoat to justify being ignorant, rude, and blatantly obnoxious; that's not what the right was coined for, and you're abusing it wrongly. This is an action outside of his given rights, and he obviously wasn't prepared to accept the consequences or responsibility of a possible physical retaliation from a likely overworked, over-stressed person.
He's not exercising his freedom of speech at all, in fact, he's insulting it. He abused his rights in an unconventional manner, and he got layed into because that's the reaction he provoked.
Next, I'll wait for someone to argue in the favor of some idiot intentionally bashing his head into a tree or similar hard surface; the action is the same, the reaction is the same. Don't do stupid things, and you won't provoke with controversial recourse.
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