What I want to know is what if the guy didn't have a knife but a gun hidden in his pants? Were the cops willing to have a shootout with all those people standing behind the culprit?
The cops pulled up and pointed their guns directly at him with many innocent people in the line of fire. If the culprit did pull out a gun, how many people were going to get shot in a shootout?
Was the situation that extreme that they had to come in like ghost busters? Couldn't they have stalked him for a while, cleared the scene, waited for backup?
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