"He's dead Jim."
What is this "worse situation" of which you speak?
But he had absolutely no reason to believe complying would either.
In broad daylight with people around? You think a man has no reason to believe he will not be shot down in the street in front of witnesses? The witnesses said they could hear the sirens approaching and it only took the police a few more moments to get there.
There is other video of this guy (Arbery) getting aggressive with a cop. After seeing it, and reading up on his history (took a gun to school) I have no doubt he thought the fat guy didn't have the guts to shoot him.
I've known a lot of people in the black gangsta culture, and many of them think they are bad@$$ and bulletproof. I had a very good friend who called himself "O.G." (Old Gangsta) and he faced down nine young "gangbangers" and whipped several of their @$$es, even though they had guns.
In that culture, you aren't supposed to show fear, and you act quickly and with great violence.
My friend hit a man so hard he broke his own arm. I remember him wearing a cast for quite a while. My friend was well known in the community and highly respected, and nobody messed with him. Everybody was a little bit afraid of him because he would go violent in a split second if someone disrespected him.
Arbery was trying to pull a gansta move, but he picked the wrong situation to make that kind of play.
Bother to read. Oh wait, you’re the flame war junky. You can’t read. Well, completely unwilling. Your coming down on this side proves to me beyond any doubt these guys are murderers. You never back the truth.