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Had a similar thing happen at a bank. Huge line because it was the Saturday after Thanksgiving, I'm stuck in the door waiting to move forward.
Suddenly this skinny little guy bolts out of the back room and starts slapfighting his way down the line.
Sheriff pops up right behind him and yells "Somebody stop that guy!"
Well, I'm in the door, and I've probably got 10" and 75 pounds on the guy. I plant my feet and decide that if he makes it to me, he's not getting past me.
He makes it to me. So I clamp one hand on his shoulder, grab him by the balls and throw him to the floor, then cover him.
Whole time I have him on the ground he's yelling "I aint fighting you! I aint fighting you!" while he's clearly trying to fight me. I tell him "Dude, you're only making this worse."
Cop comes and cuffs him, stuffs him in her car.
She comes back to me, gets my info. Did he hurt me? No. Did he break my glasses? No. Wanted me to describe him, I told her dude was just scared is all.
"Hey, do I want to know what I just did?"
"No, probably not."
I spent weeks thinking I was going to get called to court as a witness. Nope!
That testimony is probably why you weren't called. That would probably hurt their case against him if presented as evidence.
It's not about hurting the case, it's just irrelevant to the charges in court. How a suspect is stopped while fleeing isn't usually relevant to the charges against them. Especially since it wasn't an officer that stopped them, but a civilian. That information will of course be in the report, but it wouldn't be relevant in the court proceedings, especially not needing them to testify in person.
And they likely had whatever he was accused of doing and the camera footage. Probably took a plea deal or something.