When I get stopped by cops, I turn off the ignition, given them my driver’s license when asked, and don’t make sudden moves with my hands. So I’ve never had a cop shove a gun in my face. In fact, more often than not, I haven’t even ended up with a ticket, just a ‘take it easy’ or ‘get that light fixed’.
If you don’t run around with a chip on your shoulder, and don’t cop an attitude with cops, your life will get a lot simpler.
Personally, I don’t believe that the cop pulled a gun on this dude before he ran. 1) the dude didn’t say that the cop did, (the quote is “ I saw him reach for his weapon,”) and 2) if the cop really did have a gun on him when he ran, this cop probably would have opened fire.
Now after he had to jump back in his car, and chase them down and force them to stop, he did hold them at gunpoint until backup arrived.
I have had guns shoved in my face by cops dressed in street clothes without any visible identifiers. Six of them, in fact. I had a 7/11 Big Bite hot dog in one hand and a Big Gulp in the other. Ooo.. I mighta “weaponized” that Big Bite.