No matter who was driveing, without either seeing a weapon or hearing a verbal threat from the suspect, the cop was way out of line.
Freakin trigger happy Barney Fife.
Is this the kind of cop you might want to have stop a car after dark with your 15 year old kid in it?
I normally do support the cops, they have a tough job. But this was so far over the line it's indescribable.
There is such a thing as bad cops. I was once pulled over for doing 42 in a 30 at 5 am , Arlington, TX. The young white cop who came to my window acted like he was on crank or something, very agitated and shaky. I put my hands on the wheel and didn't move while he checked me out with his flashlight--he told me to get my proof of insurance and I said 'it's in the glovebox--do you wnat me to get it out?' He said do it--I reached in and he started screaming Drop it now!--out of the corner of my eye I could see his weapon aimed at my head. Then I heard his partner--a black guy--ask him what the f are you doing now? Lower your weapon who stupid ........i thought he was going to beat the hell out of his partner--he then walked over to me and apologized--looked sideways at the guy and told me I was free to go--two days later I am watching the news and see that cops in Arlington shot and killed a Mexican man sleeping in his truck. Guess who the shooter was?--same cop. The investigation was 'inconclusive' though there was no weapon found on the victim, but the cop was released. Two years later the guy makes the news again. This time he is working as a Dallas County constable and shoots and kills someone who came out of their house holding a fork. I am not sure what became of him after that. From what I can see in that video, this cop is from the same cloth.