>How about, “License and registration please.”
To be technical, that sounds more like a request than a command.
But let’s assume that such *is* a legitimate command/request; is there a gap between “License and registration please” & the use of lethal force?
Of course there is!
But there’s nothing in the account that indicates anything in between; IOW, it is the gap itself that is so disconcerting.
That’s why the story smells so bad; even the WestPointGrad/Costco shooting had more details than this (granted there were a lot of witnesses) and there was SOME* (very small, but still existent) reason for the police to use force in that situation... in this case: nothing.
* And that story was a really bad shoot in itself; there were multiple officers issuing multiple commands such that the compliance with any command was non-compliance with another.
If you do your civic duty and cooperate with the legitimate authorities and offer your license and registration and answer Constitutionally sanctioned questions honestly, there is a great distance between, “License and registration”, and the use of lethal force.
Everything is a learning opportunity. You can take this from the events. When a deputy approaches you at 4:40 in the morning after you crash your car into a locked school yard gate, he calls to you to stop, but you flee only to return to the vehicle to try to drive away with two young girls strapped in the back seat- you are going to be shot. Hopefully we have afforded our law enforcement officeres with enough training that you will not be wounded, you will be killed. God bless the men and women in law enforcement.