[joseph20]

"Nope. the driver gets out of the car and starts walking towards, and pointing to 'something'. The officer orders: "Turn around, put your hands behind your back..." Driver keeps walking and then the officer pulls the taser."

Watch the video again. This is the exact moment, 2:29 into the video. You can see the officer reaching for the taser on his left hip.



You can see from this picture that the driver was doing nothing wrong at this point. The last instruction he received was to "hop out of the car". So there he was, talking about the 40 mile an hour sign, which was a continuance of the discussion they were having before.

The officer hadn't even finished saying "turn around and put your hands behind your back" before he reached around for his weapon!

[SGCOS]

Fine. good rebuttal.

what information does your picture provide what the driver is doing with his right hand? nothing suspiciuos there....

Again...we aren't there. We can argue all we want. The frame you posted so intensifies the argument for the USP.

That was a REALLY bad frame for support of the driver..

[Tammy8]

The driver’s right hand is near or reaching into his pocket- how is the officer to know he doesn’t have a weapon in that pocket? This may have been an innocent act on the part of the driver- but driver is not cooperative and then reaches for pocket- dangerous gesture at that point. LEOs have to have situational awareness about movements like that. People need to be aware when dealing with LEOs to not do anything that they might take as a threat. If I am that officer, with an uncooperative driver and he is reaching in his pocket- I would feel threatened and that move would definately have a bearing on my next move- self defense.