His Feelings be damned.
Obey the lawful orders. Work out details and their resoning later. At night in the street with stressed out cops is NOT the place to start arguing about how good an attorney you are.
Hell, Our commanding general, told us at MIOBC and MICCC breifings that if you are stopped/confronted by cops outside Ft. Huachuca, you better pretend it is her and her SGM giving the orders and give them all due respect. If you get arrested, she'd send the SGM to get you out and work it out in court later. Cant remeber the BGs name, but she was pretty cool. SGM was a hardass though.
Did you ever meet a SGM who wasn't?
Exactly, file your complaint at a later time.
He was given two conflicting orders. Keep his hands were the cop could see them and get out of the car. He could not obey both. I would have done the same thing 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. From what I see in the video the second the soldier’s hands were out of site or they started to come back up the cop would have went ‘Chicago on a Saturday Night’ on him
Which ones? As many have already pointed out, he was getting contradictory "lawful orders" from 2 different officers, both with guns pointed at him. By walking up to the car with guns already drawn, the cops had already escalated the incident and once they pointed the weapons, they gave the driver reasonable cause to believe his life was in danger if he made the wrong move. So if two people pointing guns at you are telling you to do different things, which is the "wrong move" that will get you killed?