Originally Posted by
jcwoman
I used to work with law enforcement, so my speculation about this is that that particular parking lot was probably a known location for drug dealing or some other crime issue, and officers in the past had the perps draw weapons on them when stopped and questioned there. It's actually pretty rare for a cop to over-react to this degree for no reason at all.
You could be right. Certainly, this police officer acted as if her actions were routine. She'd done it before, because she had no difficulty holding the gun and writing at the same time.
She was quite calm, not showing any sign of over-reacting, and she spoke calmly, not shouting. She didn't even seem to think that I might be upset at having a gun pointed at me. We didn't talk about the gun.