“And how did the cop know that?”
He obviously didn’t, and that is my point. The cop appears, when he wrote his second version of the story, to have made a big mistake. He claimed the suspect was trying to flee out the rear of the apartment, but it seems that he didn’t realize there was no way the suspect could flee in that direction. To me, it sounds like the officer was just making up a story after the fact to cover himself, and did not check his facts.
Of course, if you are the type of person who believes that police never falsify reports to cover-up their own misconduct, then I guess that you would think that is a completely implausible conclusion. I am not that type of person.
“he didn’t realize there was no way the suspect could flee in that direction. “
Hold on. You believe it was physically impossible for him to run in that direction?