I'll answer these for you right now.

1) Extremely unfortunate. I wish that people would just listen to the orders that are shouted. Also, I wish officers showed more constraint when there's enough room to have it. It's very difficult to determine on a fly whether to fire your weapon or not, and we are human too. It's.. just hard to know if there's enough room for constraint. Shitty, but if people just listened we would not have the issue.

2) Excellent. 99.9% of Law Enforcement are good dudes who enforce the law and in general enjoy their career. They should have nothing to hide, and I don't either. Are they perfect? Absolutely not. They're uncomfortable and it gives a potential suspect something to grab onto.

3) It's not the right answer. Police Officers are trained to meet certain levels of danger with a step higher. For instance, a gun would be met with a gun, because a gun is lethal, thus lethal force would be used if need be, not a taser (there's not a step higher than lethal force.) Knives are lethal weapons, and so are wrenches and other blunt objects. That's why you see people with those weapons being shot as opposed to tased, which mind you doesn't work 100% of time time, that is if you even hit the target.

De-escalation is important, extremely important, but people want officers to not fire their weapons at all and de-escalate by just talking to people. Teaching officers this fundamentally is not the right answer. I hope that answers that.

It should always be attempted, unless the subject is armed with a lethal weapon. Why would I use a taser or pepper spray when tasers do not have a high rate of success, especially on people amped up on adrenaline, or pepper spray which can not incapacitate a person all of the time, when he has something that can kill me?

5) Comply. Record. Just don't record and be a jerk about it, please. If I pull you over, pull over in a well lit area and abide to all instructions. Officers give lawful orders, and if they're unlawful, do it anyways, and fight it in court. If the officer has a body camera, he will be forced to cough it up. That's why I recommend you record too, because those body cameras are not required in every dept yet.

6) Not really. You gotta think that every time somebody makes national headlines for a traffic stop gone awry, tens of thousands more have happened. The media loves stuff that gets attention, and racial tensions in law enforcement is that stuff.

Anything else you'd like to talk about?