It wouldn't bother you to be approached like that?
Would I mind in a cop cruised slowly through my neighborhood? No.
If I filmed him, would I get bent out of shape when he got out of his vehicle and wanted to talk to me? No. In fact, if he wanted to talk to me and I wasn't fimimg it wouldn't bother me.
Of course, I would take my hand out of my pocket and the gun would likely never be unholstered.
Would it surprise me that if I refused to take my hand out and argued, he unholstered? It shouldn't.
Would I like it if a cop followed me trying to talk to me after all this? Maybe not, but I'll probably never get a chance to find out because I'm not an argumentative idiot.
I'm no expert, but I kind of thought that police cruising through neighborhoods looking for anything even slightly awry was a good thing. Now, whether you think he should have gotten out and talked to the guy just because he was recording, well I don't know, it's a judgment call, but where I used to live, police would pull up and talk to people from time to time because, well, sometimes people talk to each other. I have to admit that if someone were recording me, I might want to see if there was any particular reason they were. I don't see anything wrong with that.
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