Why would he be sorry? He was doing the job he was trained to do.
He was not trained to beat up people for being weird.
He didn't "beat up" anyone, he was restraining a possibly fleeing suspect.
A suspect of what? He wasn't suspected of anything.
He was acting erratically. Like I said, ignore everything else in this situation, if that kid was doing everything else he was doing but had a gun hidden on his person and was intending to shoot up the playground, would people still have this kind of outrage? You have the benefit of hindsight, the cop didn't.
WHy are you making up this irrelevant hypothetical bullshit?
It has nothing to do with anything.
And he wasn't even behaving erratically, he was playing with a string.
The problem with this country is that people don't know how to mind their own business. Being weird or potentially even mentally handicapped isn't an excuse to harass people.
There's an older guy around my parts that obsessively cleans any public area he's in, I'd imagine he has some sort of autism but I've never cared either way. The police job is to protect and serve not harass civilians any time they think they can get a drug bust.
Also because of quotas police harrassment is at its highest during the last days of the month
It's not irrelevant if that is what the police are looking for and find. Answer the fucking question.
Playing with a string in front of your face makes people think he has a gun and is going to kill someone?
Maybe the police should come to your house and tackle you since you might be on something