ok let me set this up for ya.
bout a year ago i got pulled over, didnt have plates on my car cus i just bought it and i didnt like the neon green dealer plates so i took them off but i had the reg sticker they put in the window so i thought it was fine. anyways, so i get lit up and i pull over. now at the time im on a very dark street in an industrial area, not a soul around. so officer comes to my window and asks if i know why i was stopped, i say no, he goes on to tell me why he stopped me. now heres where things got crunchy, he asks for dl and reg. i tell him dont have the reg card yet and my licence is in my wallet in my back pocket. now let pause that. i personally know 2 people who have been shot by police, one made it one didnt. the one that didnt i can honestly say definately provoked his situation however the friend that survived did not in any way. he had a wallet that was like a case, not material, and it was silver. long story short he reaches to get his wallet, cop thinks it a gun, pops him just like that. so anyway that thought has always kinda haunted me. so with that being said when i was stopped and the cop asked for my info im freaked out cus that situation pops right up in my mind. so i asked the officer if i can get out and give it to him(this whole time i have both hands on the wheel in plain view). he immediately puts his hand on his weapon and is like why do you need to get out and that made me even more nurvous so i go ahead and tell him why i wanted to get out, told him the whole story about my buddy and i was sincere. i told him i dont wanna get shot, i want u to be able to see i have nothing but my wallet. he rolls his eyes and and says all annoyed like "sir take your hands off the wheel and i need your licence" so now im like ok what do i do. im shaking like shit now, then the cop gets on the horn and radios for another unit. i say to myself ok here goes and i tell him im gonna get my wallet, i dont have anything on me he then grabs his gun as i lift up and reach for my wallet and i give it to him. fastforward. he s runs my info, second unit arrives. he comes back with the other officer and tells me to get out the car. i get out and they sit me on the curb and go in to lecture me on when a cop asks you to do something you do it and dont be playin games and wasting our time and all this shit.
sorry this is so long but please bare with me.
now recently i ran into an old hs friend who is a cop in my town and i told him the story. shockingly he responded the same way they did. "dude u cant be doin shit like that, i would've pulled you out at gunpoint and just not what i expected to the say the least.
ok so my question is WTH? am i crazy for believing something like what happened to my friend could happen to me? i understand cops deal with some serious shit but i also feel like cant an officer understand where folks like me are coming from? once im out the car, which was searched, as was i, and they see that there is not threat to their safety and no laws broken, wouldnt a regular person kind of see the other side? i dont know whats your take?