How is the reaction of the people relevant to our topic? Are you suggesting that the police is acting differently when they suspect that there will be an outrage, and differently when nobody is watching them?

I'm not sure if you're trolling or just very misinformed, but the position he was held in violates every single rule of police training on restraining individuals.

‘There are none so blind as those who will not see. The most deluded people are those who choose to ignore what they already know’.