despite being ordered at gunpoint to take hold of it. ===========
You have the reading comprehension skills of a house plant.
If one's sidearm is holstered, how is one to interpret the command to drop the weapon? Only one way I can think of, but I'd have disregarded that command and raised hands over my head as high as I could instead.
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He was first told to raise his hands. He then takes his left hand,lifts his shirt and with his right hand goes for the weapon. He is then told to drop it. He didn't just drop it,he raised it in a holster in which a firearm could still easily be fired. He had lethal amounts of morphine in his system. He had a addiction to Oxycodone and on top of it all,he was severely intoxicated. The officer didn't have to try and keep figuring out what the erratic,drunk and drugged dead dumb guy was going to do next. That could have made him a dumb,dead cop.
The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails. William Arthur Ward
