“You’re ignoring the testimony of the retired Air Force intelligence officer.”
After over 20-yrs in the Air Force, knowing all sorts of intel guys from the squadron level to HQ AF, being an ‘intel officer’ doesn’t give him that person more credibility than anyone else.
Good guys, usually, but not more credible in situations like this.
The officer was standing up when Reeves returned to the aisle. He didn’t see a firearm, nor did the Oulsons or Reeves’ wife. Reeves was polite when he squeezed past the officer and there was no hint of anger on Reeves’ part. I’m not ascribing anything to the officer other than what he observed directly. He did suggest that he was more observant than most.
Reeves’ politeness could have been learned behavior. IOW, perhaps he could have still been angry. In that case he was responding in accordance with his LEO training.
I’m not assigning any more value to the officer’s testimony other than he was being consciously observant.