Unanimously affirmed.
The police were engaged in arresting, in the street, in a high-crime area, a man whom they had more than probable cause to believe to be an armed bank robber, identified by a bank security photograph taken at the time of the robbery. Defendant was the robber's sole companion. The police were justified in approaching the men with drawn weapons — "I was not going to go against a possibly armed man without being prepared." The police suspected...
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