He should have just moved in and handcuffed him when he was lying face first on the ground with his hands out.
All the other instructions just made the situation more dangerous for everyone.
He should have just moved in and handcuffed him when he was lying face first on the ground with his hands out.
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That makes perfectly good sense.
All the other instructions just made the situation more dangerous for everyone.
Exactly. Instead of escalating the situation, yelling at the guy and giving him confusing and conflicting instructions and asking him to crawl, the cop could have diffused the situation and simply and calmly told him to lay flat on the floor with his arms outstretched in front of him and his leg’s spread apart and to remain motionless while telling him that he wasn’t going to put a bullet through his head but that he was just going to approach him have to frisk him just to make sure he wasn’t armed, this could have turned out much different.