I watched these takedowns.
In the first one, the guy ran after stopping his motorcycle.
In the second, the guy stopped once and actually started to surrender, putting his arms up, then changed his mind and fled again.
Part of this is a matter of psychology and human behavior.
Running from police has to do with wanting or not wanting something so much, one is willing to fight viciously for one’s goals.
It isn’t human nature to just suddenly shrug and give up something that we have dug in and fought viciously for.
In the motorcycle case, the guy just didn’t give up, but ran off. Then he tried hiding. And as the commentators said, he only seemed to give up when he realized there was nowhere to hide.
In the second case, the guy changed his mind after starting to surrender. It seems like he surrendered both times when he thought his ATV wouldn’t go on (since there was no other escape option for him in the Everglades).
In the case with the troopers, the man surrendering just then, and dropping his fight, very likely surprised the officers so that they didn’t know what to make of it, and were suspicious that he would start to fight again at some point.
Once again, I’m not saying they did no wrong, or didn’t make any mistakes, but perhaps they didn’t, or perhaps it wasn’t nearly so bad as many people want to make out, but more of a borderline case.
Interesting that a lone cop can cuff someone who has run but eight cops cannot with beating the dude up ...