Besides, the 21-ft rule applies not to field interviews, traffic stops, and stop & talks, but to subjects known to have edged weapons.
I have to ask another question for you I-Ching:
You just got a 911 emergency dispatch call and are headed to that call location with all haste —
Why then are you wasting time stopping 2 kids in the street and having a battle over whether to walk there or not???
There is an emergency 911 call on the table that you are supposed to be responding to — hop to it.
As far as he knew those two had nothing to do with the emergency dispatch, and if it later turned out that they did, he now knew where they were and where they were headed and could have gone there with backup with an entirely different result.
Where am I wrong???