Everything I know about law enforcement, I learned from watching COPS on tv...so I’m no expert.
But, in my viewing experience, car theft is a serious crime of the felony variety. And, once caught, car thieves are treated like unexploded ordinance about to go off...and lets face it, a guy with 45 prior charges is looking at a lot of time in prison for car theft - and who knows what he might be capable of in an attempt to escape capture.
True but as best I can tell, the cop had no reason to believe the guy had a weapon. He neither saw a weapon or heard of one unless there is something we don’t know.
“Not following my commands” should not be grounds for an execution.
I miss the good old days when not following commands just got your azz kicked but Rodney King fixed that for us.