Why did the cops give up the advantage

They have been instructed to behave like toothless cops in a British mystery. Reason with the perp.

I get it on the fear thing. But now there is a dead a-hole and at least 2 cops who will probably lose their jobs over this. Whereas if they had been a little rough with the guy, they would have filled out paperwork and
gone home

Still don't get why they let that guy walk around the car while they had their weapons drawn....a British cop would have at least taken out his baton and bashed you.

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they could have subdued him before he ever opens the car door and no one dies....and all the cops get to go home that night.

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They told him not to move. They continued to warn him. They had guns on him. The guy knew what was going to happen. Why should the cops subdue him? I am tired of hearing the cops should have done this and the cops should have done that. Maybe this asshat should have listened and complied.
Maybe when a criminal decides he wants to turn an interaction with police into a lethal showdown the cops should oblige, put one in his head, and we all get on with our lives knowing the world is now a little bit cleaner.
The cops are not responsible for protecting criminals from their own dumbass decisions. If some idiot pulls a weapon or tries to go for a weapon, they know the outcome. The police did their job correctly in this case.

They feel their hands are tied given the current climate. If they were rough with him they would have been fired just the same this is happening regularly already.

Appeasement tactics don’t work and this will become more common. Things will be allowed to progress into life and death struggles with only the winner walking away.

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in the Kenosha video. There were four cops and they had this dude. Four against one ....way before he was ostensibly going for a gun.

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Pause and zoom in on the video as he’s making his way around the hood. Watch the left hand

I don’t know that it was a gun, but it looks like it could be. There is probably a reason their guns were drawn in the first place. He could have had one and wasn’t threatening with it, causing them to hesitate as he walks off. They could have seen one on the other side of the car, causing them to draw there guns and fire when he got to it after walking around...

No one knows. people speculating cops are out to assassinate black men in broad daylight around people that likely have cameras is beyond stupid. Should probably wait to see what comes out

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same reason they shot him, bc they're too scared for that line of work

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Do you go to work each day with concerns over a felony indictment and losing your family for making life and death split second decisions? Oh, and for $40,000 / year?

Could it be they saw the gun in his waistband? Could it be that when he turned his back to go the the door that the moment presented a possibility of a turn and fire situation? Could it be that the deceased hedged his bets that in today’s climate he had great odds of jumping in his car and driving away because the cops would not fire on him?

Who knows?

If you think their job is so straightforward and easy, I suggest you "man up" and join the force. I suspect you don't have the balls to do it

So don't ask questions? Don't ask why they let a situation get out of control? Because they are paid to keep the situation from getting out of hand.....a situation they had control of, a situation that they ostensibly relinquished control of. If they had the guy down before, they knew the guy had no gun....or they would have rock and rolled sooner.

What? You can't ask questions of the police until you have THEIR version? Talk about sheep behavior