Citizen
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Was their 'coordinated manuvers' illegal? What exactly should the police have done once they got there?
Calm down a second.
First, their coordinated manuver has such a strong implication for robbery as to approach guarantee. The likelihood of a genuinely innocent explanation for the totality of circumstances is nearly non-existent.
The actual manuver does not need to be illegal in and of itself to justify alerting police. If actual observed illegality were the standard, there would be no such thing as RAS, nor Terry Stops.
Police response can take, I imagine, a range of actions. Perhaps they don't come at all, focusing on higher-priority calls. Perhaps they come and take descriptions of the suspects. Perhaps while driving around later on patrol, the police come across the two and initiate a consensual encounter that ripens into RAS for a variety of reasons. Maybe even into probable cause. Perhaps the consensual encounter alerts the suspects that the police are onto them, and they had better suspend their predation for a little while. There are a number of possibilities.