That's really not escalating the situation, that's just pure assault.
And the knife is a red herring, the guy is homeless, he had all his belongings on him. A knife is an extremely useful and necessary tool to have. Finding it in his possession (assuming he wasn't holding it) isn't much different then them finding a knife in a residence (i.e. every house ever).
Although he's white, so this should probably go into the police transgression thread we had before.
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