He didn't instantly both:
a) "keep your hands up" and
b) "remove your seat belt and exit the vehicle"...
Explain to us how someone unbuckles their seatbelt and opens the door while keeping both hands up.
After seeing the sad video of the shooting of Daniel Shaver (a white man by the way, which matters to some unfortunately) by police officers giving confusing/near impossible orders, there is NO WAY as a black man I would follow the orders of one police officer telling me to ‘unbuckle my safety belt’ when there is another police officer, with gun out, telling me to ‘keep your hands up.’
No way! Next thing you’d hear is ‘he appeared to be reaching for something.’
My hands would remain very high and very visible outside the window until the cops are 100% aligned in what they are telling me.
People have been shot for less, and as a 100% law abiding citizen I would have done exactly what the Lieutenant did. Keep my hands high and outside the vehicle, and under NO circumstances be FOOLISH enough to risk my life (and it is a proper suicidal move) to go to unbuckle the belt because one officer is telling me to when the officer next to him is telling me to keep my hands up.
I will take the pepper-spray to the face any day before I take bullets to the torso. Spray to the face would ruin my day (and clear my sinuses). Bullets to the torso would ruin my family’s day. Easy decision!
As an aside - I am always VERY wary of police officers. I stay on three continents, and if I was to compare cops in Europe, Africa and the US I would say (easily) the most professional are American officers, the softest European, and in Africa one moment you can meet someone who is truly good and the next day someone else that makes you truly question standards.
However, it is only in the US and Africa that meeting a cop at night is something I consider a potentially dangerous encounter. Pulling up at a roadblock in Africa manned by five cops with Kalashnikovs and suspiciously red eyes, or being pulled over in a dark street by a cruiser in the States, are BOTH situations that require me to immediately turn on the inside lights, quickly lower the windows, call someone and put them on speaker (with the phone on the dash), and put my hands on top of the steering wheel.
In the US - a special consideration is made, which is to never have my license information in the glove box or in my pocket. I am almost always wearing a suit/jacket, and in the US they are always in my jacket!
Crazy, right?
Yes - until one watches that video of the shooting of Daniel Shaver!