Why would the officer think he could man-handle a moose ?Some has suggested, Brown was high on violent drugs.
The time for a plan was as soon as he identified the perp.
OBTW; Are you familiar with the 21 foot rule ?
Of course I am. Others insist that Wilson had not gotten the bolo, and are giving me grief about that. So either way, we can second guess the cops tactics all day long, but the bottom line is that it was a deadly force situation, not a taser situation. Could he even reach it while wrestling with Brown inside the vehicle, assuming tasing was more appropriate (which it wasn’t)? How does he have a hand free to get taser off his belt, while fending off brown with one, and trying to secure his weapon with the other, etc? Sheesh.
Besides, the 21-ft rule applies not to field interviews, traffic stops, and stop & talks, but to subjects known to have edged weapons.