His hands were outside of the window. He was not a threat. This was a dramatic escalation, and the officer could be clearly heard making a threat. For what? Their reason for pulling him over was an outright lie, the temp tag is clearly visible in their video.
This should not and does not have anything to do with race. If this was a white man, the press likely wouldn’t have covered it, but the officer’s actions were still inappropriate.
WTF over, he is in a 5000lbs weapon. All he had to do is flee and put lots of lives at risk. ALso, cops couldnt confirm he was active army until he started obeying their orders. People wear military uniforms and try to act like military all the time.....stolen valor idiots. If I were CO, I'd be chewing this young LTs ass out for not complying with cops, hell...article 15 his ass. His job is to do what local LEO say, even if unreasonable, and then show up with lawyers...not to argue on the streets. Shit...this is discussed at every OBC course in the US.......DONT ARGUE WITH COPS....DO WHAT THEY SAY AND WE WILL WORK IT OUT LATER.
The Police Officer repeatedly asked the driver to EXIT the vehicle, and suspected that others were in there, but eventually it turned out it was the drivers dog.
However from the Police Officer's perspective the driver was argumentative, did not comply with commands after a few minutes, while they knew someone ore something was also in the vehicle, so I believe they acted responsibly.
Unfortunately the media clips only show the last 20 seconds of the incident.