> a convicted felon who isn’t allowed said weapon
Could the LEOs have know that at the time?
I agree, the guy was resisting and took it to another level unnecessarily. LOEs had him down and restrained. The only question would be was he actively trying to get to his weapon.
No, but the first part matters, and the second part matters in the after-action assessment.
What the “gentle giant” couldn’t know was that he was dealing with two cops sent there to deal with an armed perp; once a cop has his taser out I’d shut up & sort it out later. I don’t think these cops will have a problem - and they shouldn’t. They tried the non-lethal means, it failed, and in the scuffle they have to treat this as an armed suspect - because that was what the police were told. The guy WAS armed, according to eyewitnesses who saw the police retrieve his weapon; as a cop I wouldn’t care whether or not the gun was in his hand yet once we’re fighting.
Blacks are stuck on this one; they are complaining about “de-policing” on the one hand and are now forced to canonize an armed thug on the other...