Poorly written article but the UK Guardian is Marxist in its orientation, so why bother telling the truth.
Freddy ran AFTER he made eye contact with the police, not before. That act is one of about a dozen which can give the police the right to stop and question someone.
Chances are that if Freddy had drugs on him, he needed to get far enough away to ditch them without being seen by the police (he had multiple convictions and could be facing some serious time as a career criminal).
If he had a knife, that should be a violation of any parole/probation terms.
I did a ride-along with a DC Narcotics Squad detective many years ago while I was studying Police Science (aka Criminology, Law Enforcement, etc).We went out in the famous “Green Jumper” car, a lime-green Ford that you could see from Virginia.
Its’ purpose was scare drug dealers into ditching their drugs and fleeing, wherein the police would search the bushes or look under the boxes (which young criminals would sit on as either a police watch site, or from which to hand out drugs brought for cash elsewhere). The car would coming speeding in to a drug area, screech its brakes, and then the cops would look to see who was dumping their drugs, where.
Once we hit 7th St. NW, about U street or so, we heard a whistle go out that warned everyone that the Jumper was in the area. A couple young kids quickly put things under their seat boxes and fled, as did most older dealers.
Let’s see what the CSI people find around Freddy’s “hood”.
The District Attorney is a politically ambitious white-hating bitch. After listening to her kowtow to the rioters, in your heart, you know I’m right.
A couple of friends of mine pulled a variant of that when we were in high school in the 60’s . One fellow drove thru a known area where high school kids went to drink/smoke MJ or make out with their GF. He went thru in his 57 Chevy at high speed pursued by the other fellow in his late model Chevelle with a red blinking light mounted on the dash. They went thru then parked with their lights out as the cars came ripping out of the area then went back in and picked up the dumped liquor and MJ. Nice haul only did it once though.