BRIDGETON, N.J. – With the dashboard camera in their cruiser rolling, police pulled a Jaguar over for running a stop sign on a dark night. But things suddenly turned tense when one of the officers warned his partner that he could see a gun in the glove compartment.
Screaming over and over “Don’t you f-—ing move!” and “Show me your hands!” at the man in the passenger seat, the officer reached into the car and appeared to remove a silver handgun.
Then, the passenger, despite being warned repeatedly not to move, stepped out of the Jaguar, his hands raised about shoulder level.
The officers opened fire, killing him.
I guess we’ll see if that “silver handgun” not mentioned in the video actually materializes through subsequent enquiries.
Regardless of the orders, I don’t think being uncooperative is automatic grounds for being killed, myself, especially when both empty hands are seen in the video.