I try to be open minded about these situations, and not go into them with knee-jerk preconceived opinions. There are times when that statement is true. But if Undersheriff Lewis is going to say that he ought to at least say what directives were not complied with. If he is still investigating it, how does he know what directives the officer made, if any, or that Reyes refused to comply? If there were real reporters, they would ask him. Also, why don’t they give the officer’s name? Wouldn’t it make sense to ask if he had other complaints in the past?
I'd go further than that. The statement ("had the subject complied with the officer's directives...") is almost always true.
But noncompliance should not be an excuse for extreme police over-reaction. Unfortunately, that's what we are seeing too much of these days. Many cops take any minor noncompliance as a personal insult.