The combined body cam videos were too long to sit all the way through, but I know why police were called. The guy had a shovel trying to lift the garage door, he said to check on the dog. He was being cooperative as far as I watched it, not combative, not trying to leave the scene, but was starting to get annoyed at the repeated questioning. He called his mother’s cell so she could confirm that he was her son and that she knew he was sitting on the porch waiting for her to return. Got voicemail.
My husband watched the whole video. He says that everything was pretty cool until the guy, without the cop’s permission, made a phone call, and said something along the lines of, “hey, can you come over here to my mom’s house? I’m being harassed by the cops.” The cop explained afterward, in the video, that this was considered a threatening act to the cop, because the cop doesn’t know who he called (reinforcements?) and didn’t give him permission to make the call. The guy didn’t put it on speakerphone, as he had when he phoned his mom. Maybe the old adage of three sides to every story applies here?