(Catching up on this thread…)
Agreed. And while the officer evidently did not do a very good pat-down, to his credit he managed to quickly subdue the assailant without gunning him down.
IOW, he managed to do what many police do not.
Watching the video, it was fairly evident to me that if the kid was going to shoot, he already would have. Ergo, he probably wasn’t going to shoot, and was [stupidly] trying to intimidate the loss-prevention officer into releasing them. Many, if not most, cops would not take any chance, though, and would have immediately shot him multiple times.
Kudos to this officer for not doing that. He should serve as an example to other cops.