Older people sometimes don’t use very good judgment, and are not accustomed to dealing with police. They don’t deserve to be shot for making a dumb mistake. Never did I hear the cop say to stay in your vehicle, which is customary when you see the driver start to open his door.
Yeah, if you fought for freedom in WW2, and didn't grow up in a police state, it is easy to think you can still get out of your car and go over and talk to a cop. The rest of us know to stay in car, heads bowed, eyes down, hands on the steering wheel, and say "yes sir" and "no sir".
“They don’t deserve to be shot for making a dumb mistake”
NO $HIT! But just how is it dumb? Are you dumb because you believe that you’ve done nothing approaching being shot for and so you get out of your car? You mean today the cops can come up on you for a frigging expired tag and just blow you away for stepping out of your vehicle? This idiot should never be allowed to put on a badge and a gun again, and the local folks should vote his boss off the LEO island via a recall.
Yeah, my question. Why didn’t he tell him to get back in the truck?