Sometimes .. just keeping your MOUTH SHUT is the best plan.
If you want for the cop to approach your car and comply with his request for your license and registration; what is there for them to get huffy about ..??
I’ve never in my long life had a cop react badly to me.
But, if you watch COPS, you’ll see people bad mouth the cops all the time. Some of the cops react and some of them don’t. And .. when some of them react, it just makes the situation worse .. for them and for the person they stopped.
That’s my final statement on the situation.
Then you've been sheltered too long. Not that its a bad thing, you've been luckier than others. I'm a retired senior, but I've seen plenty of bad cops from my teen years up. One time as a 16-year-old getting yanked out my car along with my teen friend and assaulted by cops. I suspect it had to do with my best friend being black. We were tossed around against the car and berated, a cop searched my car and stole some stuff. My dad went with me to the police station to complain, but the cops stuck together and the desk sergeant wouldn't do anything. This wasn't the first incident, nor the last of this type. I ended up working with police departments over a couple decades. I knew a lot of good cops, but there are some bad ones on the streets. One time a couple rookies were giving me and my wife a bad time falsely accusing me of a traffic violation, and I ended up berating them, because I told them they were making me late for a meeting with a police captain (true). They turned tail so quickly. Some cops are punks who like lording it over civilians.
The Uber driver was polite and complied with the officer even though he did nothing wrong.
The officer was the one who didn't signal. He should have ticket himself and left the Uber driver alone. He was the one who should have kept his mouth shut.