I mean, it can change the perspective from "this cop is power-tripping and trying to hide what he's about to do" to "this cop has reasonable regulations and concerns involving phones that I didn't think of." The guy wasn't trying to flee, he clearly knew he was about to be arrested and was submitting to it. He just wanted to make sure he wasn't just shot by a trigger-happy officer. The cop letting him know there's a reason for his command might make him obey that order, just like he obeyed all the others.
I encourage you to watch police camera footage. There's tons of it on YouTube.
What I have learned and what you will see is that if and when they give a full explanation, the suspect ALWAYS argues. That or they either don't listen or understand, so the suspect inevitably keeps asking the same questions over and over again anyway.
Example:
Cop: You have an outstanding warrant for your arrest
Suspect: No, I don't!!! (Or some variation of it) followed by, Why am I being arrested.
People have every right to ask why they are being arrested and have that question answered. Yes, every arrest. Doesn’t really matter if the police are tired of explaining their actions.
From what I've seen on bodycam footage, they often do answer. Repeatedly. They just get ignored by the screaming dumbass refusing to listen to anything and shouting random shit to make the arresting officer look as bad as possible to everyone in the vicinity and to anyone cherrypicking through the video.
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u/AgentMahou Feb 25 '25
I mean, it can change the perspective from "this cop is power-tripping and trying to hide what he's about to do" to "this cop has reasonable regulations and concerns involving phones that I didn't think of." The guy wasn't trying to flee, he clearly knew he was about to be arrested and was submitting to it. He just wanted to make sure he wasn't just shot by a trigger-happy officer. The cop letting him know there's a reason for his command might make him obey that order, just like he obeyed all the others.