I am trying to explain one of my winger relatives that this culture of someone running

[Aerows]

11. Absolutely

It will spare you much grief. Cops seem to enter a situation, and then make up their own story in their own heads about what actually happened, regardless of facts. That's why we get such things as "He severed his own spine", "he was resisting", "she was handcuffed but managed to shoot at police in the squad car".

You can't reason with someone that makes the story up as they go along, control the evidence and do everything they can to prevent the truth from doing anything other than aggrandizing the officers.

You just can't.