Santa Clara: Police expected to address video of cops’ clash with fan at Pac-12 title game

Jim Dudley, a former San Francisco police commander who lectures in criminal justice at San Francisco State University, said it’s difficult to gauge from the video how much resistance officers are encountering.

“To the third party, someone might look like a passive resister. But once you put hands on and they stiffen up, pull away, or try to walk away, then that changes into active resisting, and you can ramp up use of force in those situations,” he said. “But it still looks passive to a third party, and to them it doesn’t appear that the force is justified.”

Nah, it ain’t that hard. Like for example, what you just said. That is not a level of resistance that justifies putting someone in a headlock and beating them with a baton. See? Easy peasy.