Welcome to BoingBoing, police apologist!
A whole 5 minutes passed between your joining and your defending this particular cop’s action.
I invite you to read down through the thread. It’s been established he’s not Oakland PD, and Oakland PD doesn’t know who the hell he is.
Most people regard having a pistol leveled at their face as a threat of deadly force. It’s kind of hard to see, from the business end of a pistol, whether or not the person who can kill you with the the movement of his index finger has that finger on the trigger or not.
So, let’s see how long you last before the Don’t-Push-Your-Luck Dragon flies through.
