[Faith Presses On]

I watched the altercation a number of times in slow motion. These are still shots from it:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3448058/posts?page=20#20

The camera moves away once the shooting begins.

There were two officers involved, and they didn’t have his right hand and arm under control. He moves it all around, and his gun was in his right pocket.

At the 4-second mark, you can most easily see how much Sterling’s arm moved by the visible shoulder movement. At the 6-second mark, you can see one officer using his left hand to grab Sterling’s right hand.

And, once the officers recognized he had a gun, apparently not just one officer drew his gun, but both did (one can see both officers going for their guns at the same time). If that’s the case, then they were trying to wrestle with Sterling with their free left hands while having guns in their right hands - a very dangerous situation.

[RitaOK]

Thanks for the clarifications and for your take and the photos.