he was refusing to get out of the car.
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.
Did you see the whole film? I didn’t think so Perry Mason. The man said his seatbelt was still buckled and he was afraid they would shoot him as he was trying to undo it. This was a valid reason. It’s happened before. They were there with pistols aimed right at him and so he froze to not give provocation. he repeatedly asked for their supervisor. They pepper sprayed him for no reason. His hands were visible and he was in no danger to anybody. The officers could have holstered their weapons or an officer could have come in on the passenger side and undo his seatbelt or go get a supervisor. The officers were 100% in the wrong.
Cops were giving conflicting commands on getting out of the car. That’s actually a good way for the driver to get shot no matter which instructions they followed - there are several cases where this happened, the driver followed one officer’s instructions and the other officer shot him.
Poor training on the department’s part.
After being asked to step out of the car a dozen times over 9 minutes and 23 seconds. These people simply get in trouble for either arguing or total lack of adherence to a command by a LEO. Maybe skin color makes you deaf or recalcitrant.
With a stop for no reason and guns pointed at him for no reason, and his hands and arms stuck well out of the car for the cops.
Cops were just being tremendous and dangerous a-holes.
The 'officer' told him "you should be afraid" to get out of his car makes the refusal more than justified. If his hand would have gone to his side to release the seatbelt he would have been a dead man and the officer tacitly enforced that with his statement.
Yeah.
He said he was afraid to exit and the cop said “You should be.”
Totally professional behavior on that cop’s part.
From what I saw, he was also worried about getting out of the car. The cops were in full on hostile mode, barking orders with their guns pointed and aimed.