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Originally Posted by Catfish
I don't get it.
Police arrests a man, ok he follows. Smiling? Can't really see that, but even when ..
Then leaving the flat, the female officer abruptly turns at him as if boxing him, when he turns and runs away.
Then the shots. Huh?
edit: saw the second vid, he pulled a weapon, very dumb. it seems he did not take the situation seriously. Drunk? Drugs?
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They hadn't yet arrested him they had made contact and advised him that he was a person of interest. Until they give him Miranda rights he is not under arrest. In the US it is legal to temporarily detain a person while the situation is ascertained that person can then be arrested or released.
What they where in the process of doing was getting him outside of the resteraunt where they would either have detained or immediately effected an arrest. It of course did not get to that point.
I think that this mans intent was to be killed by the police. He had stolen from a nearby store and then went into the restaurant. I think he may have planned to commit the minor crime to get the police there to him then pull the BB gun as he did so that he'd get shot.
He could have drawn the gun at the location he stole from but didn't. I think he planned it that way so that his drawing of the gun would be a surprise and get the reaction that of course occur. He wanted to insure that deadly force was the only recourse.