oh, no. are you serious? are you serious? are you serious? martha: it s a very tough video to watch, and you hear that person in the background saying are you serious. this sparked really a national debate about police violence. a seattle police officer caught on camera punching a 17-year-old girl in the face and this is a confrontation with another girl over a jaywalking violation. dan spring ser live in seattle with the details on this. dan, you know, this was it happened a few weeks back. what s the fallout been from this? well, yeah, plenty. what was most shocking i think is what you said at the top there, this was a jaywalking incident. people just don t expect something like a minor infraction to end like that with a police officer punching a 17-year-old girl and the fallout was swift, the police officer was taken off the beat, this case is being reviewed, the aclu came out against this police
right now, the sheriff s department saying they re withholding judgment but what do you say? on the surface, it looks god awful. it s hard to watch that. i ve got kids who are that age and i think gender plays a role because you know it s a female, also that the nature of the underlying incident, jaywalking. so many of this, we look at this and we say are you kidding me? she gets sucker punched in a jaywalking incident by a police officer? but you would be interested to know on the radio for the last 30 minute, i ve been discussing this and many callers say, let s all withhold judgment. people remember the rodney king incident where a little snippet of the tape was aired and we locked in an opinion. but when more of the story came out and our opinions changed. it seemed like there was aggressive force to try to bring her under control. the two teens did resist, however. when you hear all of circumstance, all of the facts maybe we ll all have a different take. and that may be the ca