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Originally Posted by Tactics

Debunked? Not really, just change of priority AFAIK as physical abuse became alternative to psychological abuse.
So actually there's nothing wrong with physical abuse to Gawman because you can interpret it under two understandings:

First, its following source material that way before psychological abuse became more reliable.
Second, investigation to Gawman is considered impractical by Kenneth for many reasons (e.g. incomplete information; efforts spent to made it effective likely not worth it, time constraint) so Kenneth is quick to resort to physical abuse; if we going to nitpick about moral standing, its just like what Obelisk said, Gawman is a terrorist and the one who made first move, so whatever Kenneth do is justified to prevent future casualties.

If Kenneth did it for fun, feel free to accuse him but you can see he's a responsible person, committed on finding Mafty ASAP as soon as he's in uniform, understand value of prisoner and happy to know he found bread crumbs to Mafty on Hathaway and Gigi. Still better than, "You can shot the hotel, its all good because politicians there will die; of course, as long Hathaway is not dead".

Torture is complicated .