I always tell the cop where the license is, then wait for him to tell me to go ahead before I reach there.
And why was he reaching for his license, anyway. The pictures show him being in the passenger seat - look at the shoulder harness. Passenger tells the cop he has a gun and reached for something?
“And why was he reaching for his license, anyway. “
He had already told the cop he had a CCW and the cop told him to get out his ID. That’s why he was reaching for his ID.
There is something seriously wrong with that video. When I started watching it, I noticed immediately that the Steering Wheel was on the wrong side for a US automobile, but the two are speaking with distinctly American accents.
No, he's not a passenger, he's the driver. You can see the steering wheel in front of him. Somehow I think they have the video reversed left to right.
Go watch the video again and notice the steering wheel in front of him.
Video was reversed. The decedent was actually the driver.
When cops have an “us vs them” mentality, every interaction with the public is expected to go bad...a self fulfilling prophesy.
As far as the calmness of the girlfriend, she was obviously in desperate fear of her life and trying to talk down a crazy, irrational maniac who had a gun pointed at her. If she had “freaked out”, she’d be dead, and she knew it.
I initially thought he was the passenger...but the steering wheel is on his side. I think the phone flop-flipped everything around.
Jail for life hopefully. There was no threat to the cop at all. Cop thought he was in the wild Wild West. A disgrace.