Police abuses

[Tellos Athenaios]

I do like to see the police using force. I would be unhappy if they got pushed around.

It isn't a disagreement about appropriate force. As far as I can tell from the clip he acted unprofessionally--just not in a way that we should care about.

I expect some policemen to get angry and react.

There, I have underlined what is so highly unprofessional about it. Not just “unprofessional” as in using some choice language in a tight spot that isn't making good PR for the department. “Unprofessional” as in: is that cop even mentally fit for duty? The guy posed zero threat to the police, and they're not paid to be angry men with guns and the right to use them, they're paid to keep a cool and level head in all situations. Heck, it would be highly unprofessional in any line of work to respond in this manner (and would normally have rather more severe consequences than being called “unprofessional”, too).

They should have that level of self respect, and having self respect and being professional are two good things that sometimes contradict each other.

Nope. If they were professional they wouldn't let that camera get under their skin. Also, I fail to see how the inability to bear being put on camera equates to having any measure of self respect worth the name.