If a simple traffic stop, no need to approach guns a blaze. I fracture the speed limit (admittedly) on occasion. I don't want to get shot if pulled over, and when asked for my license, I reach for my wallet to retrieve it.
98% of cops are good. But there are still those 2% who are not.
His record came up when they ran his plates. They didn't just jump out and start shooting at him.
There are at most maybe 12 bad shootings a year. Police have an excellent record, especially considering how many are killed or wounded every year, out of many thousands of police involved violence, around 250,000 a year or so, 600 dead maybe, according to some commies at U of Chicago.
Traffic stops are more dangerous for police than civilians; the number of halfwits who start violence over traffic violations is rampant.