Good points of discussion, let me address them individually.
And the casual accptance of brutality without evidence of justification is part of how we got there. IMHO.
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That's severe misconstrual of the nature of the discussion. I'll leave the silly hyperbole that this is "brutality" aside for now.
When I see the video, I see someone getting dragged, not by the collar, but by the hair. Her arms raised in defense to take some of the weight off her hair. That is unnecessariy brutal. It’s just
not needed.
We have a snippet of an event that we know with certainty was preceded by prior events, one of which was the person not wearing a mask when required. Much of the debate is between people who all accept that she refused to wear a mask and refused to leave. Those who think failing to mask when possible is on par with threatening other patrons with serious bodily harm, think that this is not a surprising or unjust outcome, in the highly likely even that such a person would also resist being calmly escorted out.
I’m in the club thinking non masking is an act of aggression. Just so you know.
I am ALSO in the camp that making that person scream is a discharge of that weapon.
I accept that she refused to wear the mask and refused to leave.
I agree that she needed to be made to leave.
Not a single poster has implied that it would okay for security to have just walked up to an unmasked patron and done this without prior escalation by the patron. That is a highly improbable scenario, so no one who thinks this is likely acceptable is operating under that scenario.
Including me.
Another and separate debate is what actually is likely to have happened. The question is what is more probable: 1) a person refusing a basic civil act like wearing a mask was asked to leave, refused, was escorted and fought back, leading to them going defensively to the ground as they were pulled by the collar (Which is highly similar to events that happen in bars all the time)
She was not “pulled by the collar,” in that video, her hair was clearly pulled in the direction of her motion, which is not a natural direction for the movement of hair when a person is dragged by the collar. One’s hair does not precede one.
And THAT is the basis of my disagreement with you.
I have been in my share of bar fight situations. And dragging a patron actoss the floor by the hair is not normal, and not called for. It’s wrong. It is unnecessarilly brutal. AND it makes the unmasked patron scream, and everyone around them scream, creating a far worse virus situation.
So if the justifcation is, “but the virus!” Then this is the WORST thing to do. As well as being brutal.
[...] and where the bouncers, bartenters and servers likely deal with dogmatic an indignant mask non-compliance on an almost constant basis. That would mean either 1) this is an hourly occurrence at this bar, 2) the bouncer just had a sudden mental breakdown with this one particular patron for no reason, or 3) this patron was particularly defiant and resistant to masking or leaving.
This is the, “but he had a knife, so I was justified in shooting him dead” defense, which I also don’t agree with.
The are a non-zero number of options between no action and dragging by hair. You don’t seem to address any of these, you seem to keep saying, Either nothing - or the hair. I disagree with you that a bouncer is so constrained.
#3 is by far the objectively most probable event, and made moreso by the fact that a second security guard was right there assisting which implies prior escalation and not a rogue security guard just grabbing a woman unprovoked. Note the bar security don't typically do everything with a partner unlike cops. So, the other guard was likely called to assist or came over during the struggle that preceded the video.
Two guards available means a patron needs hair dragging even less.
This isn't a court of law, there is no and should be no presumption of innocence,
I do not presume her innocent. I suspect she is a dickhead anti-masker with a conservative-sized persecution complex. Who could be dealt with in 50 other ways than to be dragged across the floor screaming, spraying her virus-laden bile everywhere in the bar.
and in fact both explanations presume criminal guilt and aggression just by different people. So, any position requires assumptions that goes beyond the evidence. This is a discussion about what is most probable given how these situations normally go down. There is z ero consequence of what we conclude, do there is no reason to be agnostic about it, especially given that the a priori probability of one explanation is so much higher.
Already aware of all that.
I am arguing that the video shows behavior that was not only unnecessarily brutal, but was detrimental the supposed purpose of the action - “mitigating virus risk,” AND detrimental to the idea that a society harms itself when it uses unnecessary brutality.