Cops stand down as bystanders step in to protect young man from threatening police response

[wryter2000]

45. Possibly

There was a Youtube here once by a black man talking about getting stopped by the police. He noticed a white woman in her car, recording the whole thing on her phone. She looked really scared. She continued for 15 minutes while the officer sat in the car looking at the man's driver's license. Eventually, the cop told him he was fine and could go, but she didn't leave until the black driver started his car and went off. Probably that stop was nothing. The cop never got confrontational. But you never know.

I would hazard a guess that, in this video, when the other man went and stood by the object of the cop's wrath, the situation was such that the cop didn't dare shoot because he might hit the other man. He put himself in real jeopardy, and as someone said in this thread, he may have saved the man's life. That's bravery.