I was under the impression he was walking in the middle of the street, not on the sidewalk. I thought this is what this prompted the whole thing. Sure, If he's just walking down the sidewalk and this happened, I would be petty pissed off. If I was walking off of the sidewalk and in the street, where I could be hit and a cop said get on the sidewalk, I'd get out of the street. It's not a black thing, it's a common sense thing.

I understood it to be that the sidewalk was blocked off because of construction so the pedestrian is on the edge of the road, walking the white line closest the sidewalk. The passerby drives past the guy with no problem, then sees the cop intercept the pedestrian in her rear view. According to the witness, the bit about walking in the middle of the street is the cop blatantly lying.

Then the cop is an @#%hole

The pedestrian's a fool for panicking that way, but people have a way of getting killed whether they do or don't cooperate. Somewhere off camera, I suspect, are townies that saw the guy walking and called the cops. Like the time someone called the cops on me: what did they say that brought the cops down so heavily like that? Their responsibility for this is non-zero.

Yea....over reacting to an overacting cop is never a good formula for a peaceful outcome.

Now we're on the same page.

Some day you may find me on some other page you never read before. I will remember you said this when we may disagree, and still be, we, together, on the same page.

Works for me.

Then we are on the same page