Here is a question that no one has asked. The DRIVER was the one who rolled through the stop sign for which the car was ostensibly lit up and pulled over. Yet the first direct action seen in the video was the shooting officer approach the car from the passenger side. Why is that?
What also not shown or presented is what occurred during the run-up tailing of the car until an infraction was committed. Were the plates run? Was the ultimate victim’s name run or heard as a response to driver’s known associates? What was reported back?
I think there is more to this than we’ve all been privileged to know, frankly.
It looks to me like he stopped at the sign. Just for a second but stopped. You can see the car rock back as it stopped. They were looking for a reason(excuse) to stop them.
That being said it was still a good shoot. If there is such a thing.
Standard procedure nowadays - at least in some areas. The officer is in less danger from passing traffic if they are on the passenger side of the car. There are also advantages of getting a different view into the car and throwing the driver off guard by doing something other than what they expected.
http://ipmba.org/blog/comments/passenger-side-vehicle-approaches
http://www.lawofficer.com/article/patrol/passenger-side-approach