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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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So, he refused all orders to shut off the car and/ or remove the keys from the ignition, plus like 25 direct orders to get out of the car (that were on the video, which could have been going on for 5 minutes or longer than we saw) and was reaching around and didn't seem to Honestly what was the officer to do? I don't know why the gun was out but the driver didn't seem bothered by it at all, which is also pretty alarming. He was told what he was under arrest for, obstruction, still didn't get out of the car or follow orders at all. I get the officer was frustrated, but I don't know how long you think this guy should have stayed put obstructing before things escalated. I really want to know how long you think this exchange should have gone on for? Until the officer's shift was done?