As a rank amateur, reading the report, it sounds bad for the officers. After reading your take on it, I realized I have nothing to compare it to. In ordinary life, it's almost always the people doing the hitting who are the problem, especially when it's a bunch of guys ganging up on a woman--which is how this looks to the amateur eye. I have no idea how difficult arrests normally proceed. I have no idea whether knocking someone out could be necessary. Now that you mention it, it's not actually that hard to imagine a situation in which it is necessary. It's one of those situations where you can believe your eyes . . . once you figure out what they're telling you. Thanks for giving us a bit of the knowledge necessary to do that. Eye-opening.