Look, it’s pretty much a cardinal rule that when you are around a cop, you DO NOT make any sudden movements, and you keep your hands in plain sight, if at all possible, and empty of *anything* that could conceivably look like a weapon.
The very best, most assuring way to behave is to follow “Military instructional rules.” This is pretty easy to do, if you think about it ahead of time. Simply put, you give the cop a lot of feedback about what you are doing.
For example, you get pulled over in a traffic stop. You roll down your window just a few inches and put both hands on the top of your steering wheel.
Cop: “May I see you license, registration, and proof of insurance, sir?”
You: “My license is in my wallet. My registration, and proof of insurance are in my glove box. I am now reaching for my wallet.”
It sounds methodical, and it is. If you have a weapon in your glove box, you tell them that it is there *first* and that you are licensed, as needs be, to have it.
I have done this at a traffic stop, and it works, to a great extent because it makes you sound like a military type who is not going to do something rash or stupid.
Excellent advice.
This is how you deal with police in a banana republic.
Next you will advise us to wrap your license in a $20 bill.
Yeah... Good advice after the fact.
However, this sounds more like blaming the shooting on the old man. Not going to work. No excuse for this one.
That is absurd.
I am a free man, and those cops are just citizens like me. They wear guns. They should be careful where they point them and give me the same information about what they are doing.
I’ve done this every time I was ever stopped which was quite often when I was in my early 20’s. Of course I learned that from my brother who was a cop and my best friend who was a cop too. Pretty simple to speak clearly of your intentions to comply with their directives.
Still even those two were old school cops, I don’t trust any of the new breed at all...EVER!