He got into the kid’s face too quickly without having enough patience to get back-up and without the people skills and professionalism to keep the situation from getting out of hand. Once the confrontation began, where was the nightstick? Pepper spray? Mace? Taser? Any training he got in non-lethal force seems to have went out the window.
The blaring of the “get out of the street” over the car speaker system identifies Wilson as a cop that is really in love with the power a badge gives him. I know the species and they really need to be in another line of work. Glad he retired personally. Expect to see him at a mall, being a complete a-hole to your teenage kids next.
Brown and his bud were walking down the street.
What should he have done? Blown the horn? Yell out the window?
He had something few ordinary folks do--a PA system and he used it to tell them to get out of the street (rather than wind down the window and just yell).
I just don't see where that translates into someone who is power mad.
YMMV