Comment by komali2

Imo they're right, if you're faced with the option of running away from some crazy person or interacting with the police in the USA, the safer option is to run.

A police interaction can escalate to ruinous heights within seconds due to no fault of your own. Remember that cop that got scared by an acorn falling and started shooting at random? I don't care how many "good cops" there are, I'm not rolling the dice on encountering an acorn cop.