If this is accurate, it won’t be the first time I was wrong.
What I’d like to know is how was it he exited that vehicle and struggled with them, yet they never saw the gun in his hand?
“”The driver refused to exit the vehicle despite the use of de-escalation techniques and non-lethal force, including pepper spray and a taser. As Sergeant Johnson and the other officer continued their attempts to remove the driver, the man reached under the driver’s seat and retrieved a handgun.””
https://www.odmp.org/officer/24738-sergeant-craig-vincent-johnson
Iam not sure that you are wrong. Either way, he didn’t get out of that car because of the gun. Most important is that it was not the officer’s weapon.