I have the feeling that he wasn’t really being given the chance to leave. I think they said it just to CYA and then escalated their interaction with him. I have the feeling that they were determined to arrest him from the start and possibly to make an example of him. I could be wrong, but that is the feel I get.
True enough, but there seems to have been a brief window of opportunity to Jujutsu his way into the upper hand when the deputy asked if he was a member of a police force.
If you are seek to be a pathfinder in these situations you must be as prepared to deal with the official side of the universe as you are to deal with the dark side.
It is a tough job and he volunteered.
Hard to make a call from a distance, but the outcome speaks for itself. Things did not go as well as they should have.
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