Watched the whole video as well. To your comment - Nope - Cops error was not waiting for backup, not sure what was possible in that instance. Wrestling with an officer and grabbing a weapon is potential surrender of life. Both morons were acting dumb on purpose or high as a kite.
“Cops error was not waiting for backup”
You SAID you watched the video.
He couldn’t wait for backup, the perp GOT OUT OF THE CAR! REFUSED TO GET BACK IN THE CAR!
“Looks” like he is about to RUN!
I’ll just wait for backup. NOT!
So does the officer wait for back up on every single call? In small departments and especially rural sheriffs departments backup maybe twenty minutes or more away. The officer made contact, saw that the suspect was not going to cooperate and asks for back up at some point and the suspect decides to run. Is he supposed to just trot along next to the guy until other officers arrive? Let him just walk off and do nothing?
Recently an officer in our small town department had a situation where he was taking a statement in a domestic event in an apartment complex and suddenly in the same complex there was a call of a massive fight in progress two units up. He got the ladies from the domestic out of his car and responded. There were 15-20 people in huge brawl and he called for back up, there was none(there actually was one, an officer in the same complex taking statements from someone else in the domestic-he’s a known coward and refused to acknowledge the call).
It was a busy night and there was no back up available was the reply from dispatch. So what was his options? Wait and watch them beat each other to death or start calling ambulances who wouldn’t enter the scene until it was secured. He got out and went Captain Hadley and found the nearest bunch to him and started knocking them to the ground with body blows or pushes. He went through six of these until he found the main instigators a 17 year old and an older guy. The 17 year old went to his house when ordered at taser point. The older guy who was 350 lbs kept on running his mouth and the officer at taser point started pushing him back into his apartment with one hand. Then he yelled loudly if he had to come back out there by the Eternal he would take all of them to jail. The fight ended and no one went to jail or the hospital.