The Memory Hole > Brutal Cop Tricks

"As a rookie, Rothmiller wondered at first why so many street toughs were willing to attack groups of cops when the odds were so clearly against them.
Then he learned the secret. Early on he saw a fellow cop pat down a suspect. "Don't move!" the cop ordered: And then almost immediately the young black man jumped and took a swing at the cop. The guy was nuts, Rothmiller though, meat on a hook. And all the cops in range tenderized him. Then Rothmiller wondered if the cop had pulled something. He did, didn't he?
"You got it, rookie," another cop explained.
The frisker, Rothmiller learned, held a pin hidden in his Sam Brown belt. Right after he told the man not to move, the cop jabbed him. So the witnesses across the street had a ll seen the detained jump and swing wildly--just moments after he was told, in no uncertain terms, not to move."