Idioms take on independent meaning from their literal content over time. So originally, you’re right - it involved fleeing from active pursuit. Over time, it expanded to mean „avoiding law enforcement action“ which can be done literally fleeing or sitting around, hiding in plain sight.

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if you are in a tense situation involving cops you should never ever make a sudden movement to pull something out of pocket or jacket. if your phone is out in your hand already and you start filming that's great. It is extremely dangerous to make that specific sudden movement around cops.

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if you have to for some reason get something like a wallet out of your pocket tell the officer what you are doing make eye contact and get their verbal assent before doing so slowly. we shouldn't have to do this but these are best practices to avoid being shot.

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