We can certainly sympathize with the girl for acting like an idiot, regardless of whether it was *her* fault (as in, she consciously chose to resist), or her parents/environments fault (as in, teaching her cops are to be feared, as an example), but that has no bearing on how the cop reacted to the situation, or that she was lucky he acted in the way he acted towards her.
All he knows is what he has to deal with at the time. She may be high, off her legal meds, drunk, having a psychotic episode, etc. There are a large number of reasons for her acting that way, some her fault, some not her fault. None of those matter at the time though, because 1) The cop cannot know them and 2) he still has to deal with the kid in some way.
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