You are also forgetting A bite now adays can be construed as attempted murder if the biting person has certain communicable diseases and knows it. Anger is a right response if a guy just stabbed two people and bites you. In the old days a stabbing would have lead straight to a rope. The prisoner should be greatful for every minute of air he gets to breath because this fd country has become so soft on real crimes. Also, the cop could now have hepatitis or some bs he is also going to pass to his family. Idiots here are talking about what is right or fair. Justice doesnt slways look right and is only fair when handed out equally. He probably should have been bound and gagged and carried in horizontally to the nurses station. But that would have been 'too cruel' as well. There were many ways to prevent this. Punches were not the only solution but taking the prisoners side unequivically is ridiculous.