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compounded by what one could conclude was a hopelessly incompetent set of commands from a Sergeant who would probably have been over his head if assigned to paperclip inventory.
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This is where I believe most of the growing pushback from the public is coming from. If you took a diverse group of non-leo, sober people, college age to senior citizens, I don’t believe they would be able to follow the “simon says” staccato commands being issued by the officers in most of these cases. It’s one thing if the citizen being detained is blatantly disobeying, but if the instructions are delivered by the police in such a way it’s not possible for a normal person, without any law enforcement background to obey them, and it results in a death, that should be criminal.