CNN or MSNBC had someone on that characterized the crowd as trying to apprehend him, like they were doing their civic duty.
He was running TO the police.
It was CNN’s Sara Sidner who made that characterization, and clearly was biased as demontrated by her airquotes when she described the armed men as “protecting” the business, and describing the kid as shooting people “at point blank range” with ZERO mention of him being chased by an armed mob, or of the flying jump kick to the head, or being hit with a skateboard while lying on the ground... Further she is demonstrably intentionally inflaming racial hatred and anti-police sentiment with her juxtaposition of a “white man with a huge gun” being passed by by “not one, not two, but three police vehicles” verses Blake who was “not visibly wearing any sort of weapon” but was “shot seven times in the back”.