Was he among the first officers on the scene? That is my perspective. He was outnumbered and trying to establish control. The other officers arrived and were in a better position (numerically) to establish control.
The biggest question for me is whether he should have waited to “engage”, until he had more officers. Otherwise, I don’t see anything wrong with his actions. Clearly, the gun draw was an act of self-defense resulting from the 2 men approaching, aggressively from behind him.
You are correct- he was outnumbered and trying to establish control. But doing a very very bad job of it.
If you don’t see anything wrong with his actions then watch the video again. There is clearly more shouting and panic and escalation every where this officer runs.
Once again, in crowd control rule #1 is DO NOT ESCALATE things.
He did not know how to handle this situation. Running from kid to kid screaming and swearing like that, put him at their level.
The two other officers at the scene should have made him stop and calm down, while they regrouped to reconsider how to address a large group where they were clearly outnumbered.