Seems as everyone involved screwed this up...
"OK, all right," he continues, as an officer aims a Taser at him. They repeatedly order him to lay down, then to turn around and to put his hands behind his back.
"You guys are really doing a lot right now," Nichols says. "I’m just trying to go home."
He doesn’t appear to respond to the order to lay on his stomach, and is shown on his side when an officer uses what appears to be pepper spray. At that point, Nichols appears to struggle out of the officers’ grip and get to his feet, running off as they discharge a stun gun.
At around 8:26 p.m., according to a timestamp on the video, he pulls off his shirt and takes off running.
By 8:33, two other bodycams show officers tackling Nichols at another intersection. One bodycam appears to fall off, and the screen shows fuzzy darkness for several minutes before an officer picks it up and can be heard saying, "He on something."
The cops were wrong but could this have gone differently had TM just complied instead of running off?
Again not excusing the cops they were wrong!