And?
He was on scene, that made it his job to intervene.
The point they , deliberately, ignore is that it BECAME Wilson's "call" the moment he had a suspect who matched the description.
Imagine
"Dude, I saw you kill that old lady, you're very lucky I'm a robbery detective, and not in homicide"
"Sorry sir, I saw the guy kill your mom, but it wasn't my call!!!"
That's vastly different from "responding to" a call. He had no intention of being involved in the robbery call, and his initial interaction both Brown and his friend was to tell them to get out of the street.
Deflect away, Uncensored got it wrong, and accused me of not having the facts.
Actually, he had EVERY intention of being involved, he radioed like three times asking if the other unit needed assistance.
Plenty of ignoring facts going on around here. Most of it from the left.
Now, are you suggesting that a police officer should NOT intervene when he sees two citizens walking in the middle of the street?
And, just as I suspected back when it happened, when they were told to get out of the street, they cursed and ranted drawing FURTHER attention to themselves.
See, that's how idiots get arrested, and that's called good police work. You see a guy doing something that in and of itself is illegal , but only marginally so and you interact with them and judge their response to see if they need further investigation.
It's called instincts and all good cops develop them eventually.
For instance, I was once patrolling around base and I noticed this guy just sort of hanging around in an area where people didn't normally hang around. Not doing anything illegal mind you, he was just in an area where people normally weren't unless they needed to be.
Anyway, on my third trip around of noticing this guy , I pulled up to him and asked him if he needed any help.
He IMMEDIATELY went into this tirade about how I was "violating his rights" and wanting to know my CO's name etc etc.
Mistake, if he had simply told me no he didn't need any help I would have continued my patrol of the area. Instead it turned into a full on arrest and what do you know, he was in possession of cocaine right there on base.
Instinct told Wilson when a guy curses back at you over something as stupid as "get out of the street" there's probably reason to stop and further investigate.