See here's the thing....when cops are trying to do thier job they don't need eveyone elses opinion and people dancing all around them telling them how do thier job. I'm not a cop but I"m pretty sure that eveyone around there that was yelling at the cop could have almost been charged with obstruction of justice. Those girls got off easy the way i see it. If he asked them to stop they should have. They shouldn't have been trying to fight with the officer. He had a right to feel as if he were in danger and protect himself with those grils fighting with him as well as the stupid group of people cheering them on. Problem is a bunch of people running around with the attitude that the world owes them something and they can live above the law. They are lucky the didn't get tazed or pepper sprayed.

He was being physically attacked by an unruly crowd, and he was all by himself with no backup. He made an instinctual decision to hit her before she hit him, which in a split second he may have felt that was what was coming next from her, or them. He's a law enforcement officer, and they shouldn't have been attacking him or resisting arrest. So in my opinion he was totally wrong for punching her - what he should have done was grab her by the back of the head and knee her in the face instead.

If it were me, I wouldn't have even expended the energy fighting them like that, I'd have immediately freely dispersed tons of pepper spray, and maybe even get a couple whacks in with my nightstick for good measure. Maybe even a little duct tape for their obnoxious, disrespectful mouths, for making me waste all of those precious donut calories I've built up.

As far as Sharpton goes, I'm white, and I've even been physically threatened by cops, when I was younger and obnoxious. If I'd of resisted arrest at the time I can pretty much guarantee I'd have gotten a smack in the face by them too. It's how cops are, no matter what color you are. And I can't really say that I blame them, if I had to deal with that kind of crap all the time too.