My criteria for judging officer actions is usually: if I did it, would I be sitting in jail right now?

Yes, I understand officers are often held to ridiculous standards on certain things, far beyond those of your average citizen. I think those things should be scaled back a bit, at least.

I think its absolutely ridiculous to give cops leeways that average citizens do not (or put them under ridiculous rules that are far and away unreasonable for an average citizen to abide by, for that matter.) I cannot go around disarming legally armed citizens because I want to "feel safe." Neither should this cop. If a legally armed person is an asshole to me, guess what? I do my job as it relates to them and get them on their way. I don't draw down on them and then say "You're acting aggressively so I need to have your gun."

I just see this as common sense. Cops are not some saintly class above common mortals. They are people like you and me, and to my mind if the rules are good enough for me, they are good enough for cops.