and, let’s not open the “intent” can of worms, which might include “extreme carelessness”.
Then he is totally off the hook, right?
From my understanding (however useful that may be), if a cop stops anyone, in a car or out of a car, and the person (whether asked to show ID or not) reaches in the direction of a weapon, he’s asking to get shot. I wasn’t really trying to bring up intention, other than if the Lavish/Diamond/relatives say that he was just reaching for ID.
If ID and gun are right next to each other, it means he was reaching for gun as far as any rational personal is concerned. If he was rational, then he would tell the cop “I have a gun in (X location). What do you want me to do now? or something like that. I hope I’m clear...I think I haven’t been lately...