Several cops have the situation under control when the cop in the light blue shirt runs up to the front, holsters his weapon and then jumps on the guy.
“Several cops have the situation under control when the cop in the light blue shirt runs up to the front, holsters his weapon and then jumps on the guy.”
The situation really wasn’t under control, though. The man wasn’t apprehended. Once he was cuffed and under their control, that would mean the situation was under control.
He had already acted totally unreasonably, without respect for the lives of other people or the police, and for the law.
And since he fled like that, who is to say that he would just reasonably surrender? Who is to say he wouldn’t suddenly shift into flight/resist mode again? He might have jumped into his car again, despite it having been damaged by the spiked strips the police put down (I recently saw a man who apparently fled an accident driving along with one front wheel hanging off at a sharp angle - when he tried turning a corner, the wheel came off.)
I know tasers can be iffy things, so at that point they had the choice of shooting him, physically overwhelming him, or acting like he had never resisted arrest and fled in the first place.
A couple of them chose to use overwhelming force. It could seem just like brutality, but when dealing with someone who has already resisted as he has, that force could justifiably be applied as a way to neutralize his threat - to physically convince him through using overwhelming force to not offer any resistance.
If you only consider that he got out of the car apparently peaceably at the end, and not considering that he had a chance to do that the first time, but instead physically resisted the officers by fleeing and put scores of people in danger as well, then you aren’t looking at and considering the whole picture. He was, by his actions, a most serious physical threat, the same as if he had been armed and willing to shoot. He was willing to be that lethal.