The officers escalated the situation from the second they pulled him over for no apprentice reason. They pulled him out of the car and immediately started to beat him down. Nichols had no idea why they were nesting him. He was trying to comply with the officers, but they were pulling and pushing him in different directions.
Their actions will be used in the future by nearly every department’s training program as what never to do.
There is no way that their actions can be tolerated, justified, condoned or explained away. There’s also no valid way one can place the blame on Nichols.
This is possibly the most obvious and blatant example of unjustified police brutality anyone has ever seen.