He ran because he was an idiot; he was afraid of going back to jail for failure to pay child support ($18,000) and he clearly wasn’t thinking. That’s probably why he resisted arrest, although obviously, since the police already knew who he was, they would have come later and picked him up anyway. It wouldn’t have done him any good to run, but he doesn’t sound like somebody whose life was exactly in order.
However, he certainly wasn’t doing anything that merited being shot in the back eight times.
Since they had his name, his car, and his buddy sitting in the passenger seat, they definitely had no reason to shoot at him. After thinking it over, he undoubtedly would have come in.
It's wasn't just jail, it was debtor's prison he'd been in twice before and for which he had no money to pay for legal counsel. Look up info on the bias against men in family court - it's destroyed tens of thousands of men.
Maybe a bit of a tangent but it shows that law enforcement is not learning from their mistakes. David Koresh of Branch Davidian/Waco fame, way back to 1993... The law could have picked him up on one of his regular walks for groceries but instead decided (for no good reason) to use their military toys. I think what we see here is just a mini-version of the same situation.
I think you’re right on it. Should have just picked him up later at his house. This didn’t warrant getting blasted in the back.
You were there? You know that for certain?