Ray From Cleveland
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What I mean is that his hands were up and he was speaking calmly. He clearly wasn’t a threat.
Officers go through tons of routine traffic violations without drawing their weapons. This should have been a routine traffic stop.
Calmly explain why he was pulled over. Write him a ticket. Wish him well. It’s that simple.
The police officer screwed it up and now he’s out of a job. Maybe he should have tried DE-ESCALATING this situation.
Again, just because his hands were barely out of the window doesn't mean he's incapable of grabbing a firearm right next to him and kill a police officer. This was not a routine traffic stop by any stretch of the imagination. A routine traffic stop is where an office turns on his warning lights, the driver pulls over, and complies with the questions or demands of the officer. Is that what happened here?