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Originally posted by DeviousJ
Isn't this a tautology though? You're saying that it's acceptable if that what it takes, and before you said it must have been necessary otherwise it wouldn't have happened.
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Two different things. In the first case I was talking about the acceptability of the amount of force allegedly used by the officers. The second part I was talking about the necessity of the interaction between the woman and the officers generally. In other words, its very likely she did something to get their attention. Whatever happened after that is a different issue.
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As far as the dog goes, it's pretty obvious that if a dog attacks you you're likely to react in a fairly instinctual way to get the fuck away from it. To say that doing this consitutes 'resisting arrest' and therefore requires some stomach kicking is pretty stupid
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Like Nimrod said above, police dogs don't just attack people for no reason. They're highly trained enough to not do so. If a police dog does 'attack' someone, its usually going to be because the officer in charge of the dog wanted that person attacked. So unless we're just assuming that we either have a rogue cop who gets off on siccing the dog on helpless girls, or a rogue dog who came unhinged (both unlikely IMO) then its likely this girl did something that required the introduction of the dog, probably by disobeying the officers orders to stop.