[central_va]

All you Freepers criticizing these two cops in this situation need to go on record as saying they would have done exactly as the Chocolate LT did here.

[Kartographer]

Did you even read what I wrote?

"I would have kept my hands where the cop could see them and hope the cop would decided shooting someone with no weapon in their hand was a bad idea and then he would clam down and get a grip on himself."

[Spktyr]

On the record, not only would I but I have had to, more than once. In my last encounter, it was one officer shouting for me to not move and keep my hands up where he could see them and the other officer was telling me to turn the bike off and get off the motorcycle. At gunpoint.

Fortunately, the officers in my case quickly realized that:
1. The motorcycle was already off.
2. They were issuing conflicting instructions and changed so that only one officer was giving orders.
3. I wasn’t going to move a millimeter until they sorted that out.

That said, I was then approached by one officer, covered by the other, and the approaching officer then gave clear instructions to get me off the bike and actually listened when I replied to his orders, such as indicating that I had to use two hands to remove my helmet.

It ended up that I vaguely knew one of the officers. I was rather unhappy that he couldn’t tell the difference between a red Harley Davidson chopper with a flame job (the BOLO vehicle) and a black Honda sport bike. I didn’t sue over it, but then I had gotten a slightly better and more intelligent grade of officer, I wasn’t pepper sprayed, and neither officer told me I should have been afraid to follow their orders.