The officer responded knew that the suspect was Black wearing a white shirt and that the men were non-aggressive and distraught. They showed their hands, indicated they had no weapons. Told the officer (I believe after telling him he was a former cop) that they had it on video and that Ahmaud had attacked them. This is probably about as much case of racial profiling as it is giving the benefit of the doubt to the 911 callers. Probably relatively rare that you call 911 before murdering someone, it would be as stupid as leaking a video after you almost got away with said murder...
Keep in mind that the video you linked was at a time where maybe a dozen or so officers were already on scene, of which I think some knew of McMichael as a former officer. The actual first responding video is probably easier to critique but much harder to watch.
But at the end of the day, I don't think the responding officers handled it that poorly. There was probably enough probable cause to arrest without anyone batting an eye, but again then they shut up and get a lawyer. Instead they voluntarily went down and gave statements that lead to their conviction. Roddie's defense of simply being a "witness" was destroyed because he told the responding officers and immediate investigators that he had pursued and hit Ahmaud with his truck.
When I hear that police disproportionately attack and kill unarmed minorities, my mind isn't that they they should start attacking and killing more unarmed white people but rather reduce the times they kill unarmed minorities. So in this case had the McMichaels been Black, I think the police should have handled them very similar.
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