Originally Posted By: fdcg27
How would you feel if you got the same type of "wake up call?"
It wouldn't ever have been a problem for me, whether I was 8 or 80, because I was taught that if a police officer asks me to obey a lawful order I listen and comply with it. There, you see, no problem, no force used by the police because I didn't brazenly disobey a lawful order to stop.
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This cop will likely face criminal charges and is unlikely to get his job back.
No criminal charges because the officer did nothing
unlawful or illegal with the stop or arrest. The perp RAN after receiving a lawful order to surrender.
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I never put myself in a position where I would have had to run from the police.
Of course not, because you learned the proper way to behave when lawfully instructed to do something by the
LEOs.
I will say that not knowing the entire series of events I personally would NOT have used that method to push the perp to the floor. But again we don't know what the perp was saying to the officer, or what happened just prior, for all we know the perp threatened the officer, I bet he did.