How about, “License and registration please.”
>How about, “License and registration please.”
To be technical, that sounds more like a request than a command.
But let’s assume that such *is* a legitimate command/request; is there a gap between “License and registration please” & the use of lethal force?
Of course there is!
But there’s nothing in the account that indicates anything in between; IOW, it is the gap itself that is so disconcerting.
That’s why the story smells so bad; even the WestPointGrad/Costco shooting had more details than this (granted there were a lot of witnesses) and there was SOME* (very small, but still existent) reason for the police to use force in that situation... in this case: nothing.
* And that story was a really bad shoot in itself; there were multiple officers issuing multiple commands such that the compliance with any command was non-compliance with another.