I have to disagree with you here. When the gendarmes ask you time and again to step outside to get things straightend out, and you just stare them down, there's an indicator that things are going to escalate, and possibly fast.
Ideally, no one wants to see some guy get zapped in front of the kids, but in my eyes, the zappee is 100% at fault when he fails to comply to a very reasonable request(s).
Owl_Eagle
"You know, I'm going to start thanking
the woman who cleans the restroom in
the building I work in. I'm going to start
thinking of her as a human being"
-Hillary Clinton
(Yes, she really said that
Peggy Noonan
The Case Against Hillary Clinton, pg 55)
Officer Buttbaby should have cleared the area of patrons before using force on the thief.