Walking right up to the car of the person they were arresting constitute interference.
He stepped in their space and was ordered to a distance they felt gave safe distance, so they continue the original stop.
Another man enters the scene, at the 4 minute mark, just before the “Minister of Justice” he begins to enter the LEO’s “Safeway Space”, which is justifiably at least 21 feet.
He ignores the officers command to return where he was, if wants to continue observing and walks within 1 foot of the vehicle, still ignoring the officer commands.
They need to control and operate their space and having two men enter the scene crested tension and a possible legal danger.
The original suspect could have attached the police, sensing a moment if distraction.
The two Trainees are so fat, I don’t see how they would the stamina or strength to move furiously for more than maybe 10 seconds Max.
The officer may have have saved those pinnipeds lives...
Bill Walker IS a race baiter, for sure. He has created all kinds of stink here in Arkansas over school deseg and had the feds involved in running three of the biggest districts in the state. I have little sympathy for him, even if he was in the right to record, because he is an absolute jerk.
That’s what I get for not watching beyond the first few minutes. I still think the police should have left him alone so long as he was standing well out of the scene of the police stop, but once the representative walked into the immediate area, it was exactly as you wrote. The police have a right to control the immediate area for the safety of themselves, the people who are stopped, AND observers.
Good points