More likely, they didn’t like is response to their mean-spirited thuggery so went immediately to the tasers. But that wasn’t enough to stop him, rather it just pissed him off and made him fear for his life. Of course he’s going to fight back now in self-defense.
We’ve seen this act by the jackbooted BLM thugs before just a couple days before the final standoff.
He was supposed to have been picked-up at the bus station by one of his relatives, but was instead wandering around in the boonies. If there is a tox report it might be interesting. Or the guy may have just been dehydrated and spaced-out. Who knows? They say he went for a rifle in the police car but it was locked-up, so he would not have been able to use it.
I find this scenario more likely than the one the BLM and LVPD publicly released version (yarn). Anyone who has had any face time with a surly (is there really any other kind these days) LEO out on the road knows what that is like.