[Faith Presses On]

“He had already shown he wasn’t by going on that chase.”

Again, you don’t get to beat up a guy who is NOT resisting arrest. At that point he was NOT resisting and was in fact rationally complying with the police commands.

Like I've said, he wasn't apprehended.

Having guns drawn on him isn't the end of the situation

The potential threat he posed being entirely neutralized is the end of the situation.

That is, he needed to be brought under their total physical control, without any way for him to regain the upper hand on them or effectively resist them or flee. Handcuffed behind his back and cooperating, shackled, whatever.

Now, I have a couple of questions as part of my reply on this. So they have him at the point of guns drawn on him and him on the ground. How should they have proceeded from there, then? And how would you have imagined the arrest to have gone?

[TexasGator]

“That is, he needed to be brought under their total physical control, without any way for him to regain the upper hand on them or effectively resist them or flee.”

I take it that you think everyone should be beaten up before they put the handcuffs on since that is the only way to ensure that the cops have the upper hand?

[TexasGator]

“The potential threat he posed being entirely neutralized is the end of the situation.”

Interesting that you think a person that is not resisting arrest should be neutralized by beating him up.

[sport]

Are you kin to one of the officers that ere arrested?