my question is...

Was it worth it, after all?
To expend resources, sending 6 or more police officers and 3 or 4 cruisers, plus all the follow up on jailing and such, all to net a single arrest for a low-level drug deal?  Was this how our city resources are best allocated to the task of making downtown safe?

And was it worth the confrontation with the crowd, the videos, the controversy, the meetings and the division in our city over the actions of police, was it worth 
 having even a small minority of the community lose trust in their police force, all in order to net a single arrest due to not even the drug sale, but due to the person having resisted the police?

I cannot decide on the actions of the police, and nobody should, without first understanding exactly how much of a threat to public safety this man was, and therefore how necessary was it to expend all these resources and risk so much community good will and unity, in order to arrest this man.