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Originally Posted by Oling_Roachinen
Nope, won't convince me otherwise. If the guy was a flight risk, as he was, the cop should be doing everything to try to de-escalate the situation and call to have backup to prevent him from fleeing.
Instead he goes into an anger based tantrum making the situation worse and far more dangerous.
The driver is at fault as well, obviously, but a little bit of patience and composure shown from the officer may have prevented him from fleeing (if for no other reason as being blocked in by another police car). Instead the officer increased the flight risk, putting public safety in danger - all because he couldn't control his emotions.
It's sad that we expect more composure from grocery store workers dealing with anti-mask karens than we do our police.
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Now look, I am no CPS apologist.
So are you saying the CPS reviewed the body-cam, with the footage previous to what was shared, and are comfortable with it? Or not?
How do we know that he wasn't more cordial, at the beginning of the stop? We don't.
Unless we don't believe the CPS release, despite the body-cam footage, we can ascertain that this isn't some cover-up. The perp was dismissive, providing false info, and repetitively disobeyed the officer. He escalated by ignoring the officer's commands, as he was under arrest with fair reasoning.
The officer, doesn't just abide by the perp's ask to "quiet down", and exit the situation. We would have ####ing lawlessness. You're coming across as blindly against cops. I am one for police reform, and re-allocating police resources. But, at times of escalation an officer will be loud, and demanding of an evasive perp.