According to the 911 call the driver placed asking for help the fact of his missing mud flap had 20 to 30 cops aiming weapons at him. He was in legitimate fear for his life as is illustrated by some out of control donut muncher sending a dog after an unarmed and surrendering man DESPITE other cops saying not to do this.
Had the state troopers not been there the truck driver may well have been killed. By cops.
The call was placed after he refused to stop and was being chased down by the police to the point where they had to deploy a pike strip to stop him. There are certainly more facts to the incident than in this article. There wasn’t 30 cops with guns drawn at the point of the initial inspection stop.