David Klinger:

Let me start out challenging one assertion that your guest just made, said it's obvious that the use of force was inappropriate. We don't know that. We really can't see from the body cam exactly what happened.

But how it goes from zero to 60 is this, you had a situation where a police officer did not manage the confrontation that he got from Mr. Brown appropriately. As soon as you get resistance, as soon as someone starts to push back, you have to understand, huh, I'm dealing with something other than a standard issue, in this case parking ticket stop, and go ahead and try to calm things down.

Instead, what he did is he starts using language such as this is my space. I own this space.

Now, the police officer has every right to control that space but he doesn't need to explain it that way. He could say, sir, I ask you to step back, you need to step back, let me explain to you why, I can't let you get access to this motor vehicle. And that's a perfectly legitimate reason for why a police officer wants to create distance between himself and the individual he's interacting with.

And then the officer called for an additional unit, which is a good thing, and multiple units showed up. And one of the things I've seen many times is when a large group of police officers show up to a situation where it really isn't warranted, the emotions start to kick up. And I think — so, the combination of not managing the verbal interaction initially in an appropriate fashion, trying to deescalate is the term of art now, and having multiple police officers show up when there wasn't really the need for that many created a very tension-filled environment.