[If you listen to either of the cops body cams, you can hear one of the cops say he has my TAZER during the struggle.]
No question that he had, at the very least, the taser. My point is that they had no idea if he had anything else hidden on him. Since he was struggling with them, it was easier for him to reach for a cop’s holstered weapon as the cops tried to restrain him. Note that this was happening in a matter of seconds *and* at night.