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Originally Posted by Daves911L

The biggest take away from this is that these folks did exactly what the cops said, and they didn't get shot and killed. It all got sorted out later. The cops are going to be very embarrassed in the end. But during the stop everything was amped up. The cops were reacting to some perceived threat, based on bogus information they had. If the gentleman had not complied, had argued, struggled, behaved in any way aggressively, there is a good chance this would have ended badly. Look at him tugging on his waistband to untuck his shirt, the cop screaming to stop, and him raising his hands to pull it off over his head. You can hear the panic in the cop's voice. That innocent old white male was a twitch of a finger from being shot right there. Instead he did exactly what he needed to do in that situation, no matter how unjust it seemed to him at the time.

Correct behavior, correct analogy.

Originally Posted by afterburn 549

There was nothing correct about that stop.
Unless you like Nazi Germany crap.
Nothing.
A 1/2 a brain would recognize the problem.

Did you read the post above? I think it's pretty clear that what the poster is saying, is that the old guy complied with the cops requests, and that was the correct behavior. It was a comment about the folks that don't comply and argue with the cops and end up with the situation going very wrong. Yes, the cops appear to have made several huge mistakes in this situation, but at least the old couple did what they needed to do and it didn't go worse.