It is amazing how many people think that if you draw your weapon, the BG is going to just throw his hands up in the air and surrender. One night on patrol my partner and I came into a park that is known for trafficing. Four subjects in the vehicle, windows slightly open and mj smoke coming out. We approached the vehicle with caution, the trespassing and 94 c gave us PC to search vehicle, ordered everyone out of vehicle, driver refused, back up was on the way, at that point one of passengers states that the driver has a handgun, back up arrives, driver then reached under the seat, he had four guns drawn on him in about 1.5 seconds and ordered to stop or we will shoot. He showed us his hands and came up empty handed, we yank him from the car, cauteously search the vehicle and found a pellet gun that looked exactly identical to the service pistol we switched from, with the knob on the bottum of the grip cut off. We almost lit this kid up for his own stupididty. We were all hoping we would not half to shoot, but we were going home to our loved ones at the end of our shifts. I had my gun drawn and hidden behind my leg because one of the subjects I delt with had priors for A&B on a police officer, and I was the back on that call so I recognized him. And with four of them and two of us, no chances...
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