one unintended consequence of gentriifucation. is that many white kids are now brave enough to be on the street
D.C. college campus. It did warm my heart to see the interracial harmony of a black kid hitting the cop in the face with a snowball, while the white kids were too chicken to hurl anything but cliched epithets and threats/warnings to the police that they were on film...reafirmed my predujice that in general, black kids are badder ass than us white boys.
I hit a car with a snowball my sophomore year of high school. The driver got out and punched me in the mouth, and gave me a fat lip. He was a senior at the high school down the road. He checked his punch or he would have taken my teeth out, as he was (by high school standards) a genuine badass. I deserved it. It was an approximately proportionate response to my wrongdoing. I learned my lesson and never threw another snowball at a car.
That said, this cops response was out of proportion to the threat. That gun shouldn't have come out unless he was being stoned with hard projectiles.
Now THAT being said, I don't think the gun being out is as big a deal as him raging around like Denzel Washington, and making a false arrest to save face. He took his gun out but didn't point it at the snowball throwers. To me that is a "reprimand" sort of action. He could have defused the whole scenario by laughing and saying "Aww Heck you's guys, I thought somebody was trying to kill me, I thought that was bricks hitting my car...come on over here and let me talk to you... I know your having fun, but snowballs on the winshield could cause an accident....so you have to keep you snowballs directed toward each other, and not throw them at any at cars on the road..." OR, if it is such a danger that is an immediate danger to motorists, call for the uniformed police in marked cars.