It's so clear there's ways to think about this emotionally and ways to think about it logically.

Emotionally, of course I don't have sympathy for her. Fuck her, she shouldn't be belligerently drunk and trying to slap a cop. In Mixon's case, the girl absolutely shouldn't have resorted to violence either, and I don't feel bad for her honestly that her bad behavior blew up in her face.

But that feeling alone doesn't make what happened to either legally or morally right in any way. Sometimes people make stupid mistakes, and if they break the law, that's what courts and judges are for. They shouldn't automatically have their faces crushed for those mistakes. And just because somebody uses violence doesn't mean they deserve to have exceptional violence used back on them, even if we casually accept that they might see that as a possible outcome.

As a fuckin barely-advanced society, we should at least have the decency to know that stupidly drunk people get more aggressive than they should, and that we'll probably have to try pretty hard to restrain them. Cops especially should know this. But if you fail to restrain, the next legal or moral option IS NOT to break their face with 10X the physical response to make things 'safer'.

Honestly I feel worse for Mixon than I ever will for this cop. A young kid should not be held up to the standards an extensively trained cop in a group should be.