Reminds me of the woman who drove up the wrong driveway in DC.
She gets confronted by security... panics, flees. And is hunted down, shot and killed for it.
Many people have a human reaction that is not to simply freeze and obey. Many people panic. And police use that, at every opportunity, to escalate and attack the victim. Often enough drawing their guns and shooting them in the process of escalating violence.
I think the moral of the story is that police = violence. Which only adds to the number of people that will panic when confronted by such an aggressive threat.
You are absolutely correct. They (often, not always and not all of them) escalate situations and incite "fight or flight" responses, a situation in which you can literally have no control over your actions, and use that as an excuse to continually escalate the situation.
When I got burned by 500 degree tar my fight or flight response kicked in and I guess my brain couldn't figure out a way to "fight" so it chose flight. I was on a roof and running straight towards the edge of an absolutely un-survivable fall. I was quite a bit heavier back then and one of my coworkers tackled me by the legs at a point that I couldn't have stopped myself from going over if I all of a sudden snapped out of it. I didn't want to fall, I didn't want to die, I didn't decide to run, I didn't want to run, hell I didn't even understand why I was running but there I was running as fast as I could right towards a sure death to get away from something that was stuck to me like glue and would have still been burning me all of the way down.
I actually didn't understand what the hell made me run that day until 3 or 4 weeks into my hospital stay a psychologist came and talked to me and I explained the entire ordeal. I've been fairly interested in it ever since.
This is a rather well known human/animal reaction and by definition it's uncontrollable. This is one reason why LEO should always attempt to deescalate a situation whenever possible and not just run in and escalate the fuck out of things like we see far to often. OTOH LEO can have their own fight or flight responses as well but from what I understand it can be significantly "conditioned out" in training.
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