No, I will repeat, supposedly the cop’s “protocol” was to pursue, this according to his girlfriend’s call in to the radio station.
This is the weak link. The cop was safe, Mikey had gone on. The cop didn’t have to pursue and was beyond the point of having to defend himself. The cop could have gotten backup and they could have arrested Mikey for robbery and assaulting a cop later. There was no immediacy to the situation at that particular second.
Yet, claims of “protocol” to pursue in an attempt to cover the cop getting out of the car, by himself, injured (supposedly, we have no actual information on that, just a rumor of eye socket injury later contradicted) to pursue.
Nonsensical.
So cops should never "pursue" perpetrators until they have backup?
Even if the perpetrators are still there, circling your squad like hyenas?