Two points. First, I don't really consider myself anti-establishment. Hell, I am a lawyer, I think I am part of the establishment.
Second, while I totally agree that you need to look at both sides of any story, your description here is so dramatic, it borders on hilarity. "Testing the limits of human self preservation" and "then thin blue line between life and death?"

Please. It was a routine traffic stop, nothing out of the ordinary. Yes, I realize that many cops will say that no traffic stop is routine -- and I don't really disagree, at least from the perspective that an officer should never get complacent to the point of recklessness -- but the reality is, there are tens of thousands of traffic stops every day in this state, and very, very few end up in tragedy for either party. Traffic stops, for the most part
are routine.
Again, high-risk stops are the exception, not the rule. And frankly, there is nothing in this tape that suggests this stop is any different from any other stop for speeding, or popping a little wheelie, or accelerating hard, or anything that likely the vast majority of the folks on this site -- myself included -- do when they get on a bike. Simply put, there is nothing in this video that suggests that if I had been the one riding by on that night, I wouldn't be the one with a bullet in my back.
Sure, maybe something happened before off camera that would heighten the cops anxiety -- but if that's the case, if the cop was so worried that he needed to come out of the car ready to draw down and fire, maybe he should have called for backup.
It's not anti-authority to question the police.
Besides, if a police officer cannot handle being "taunted," or being disrespected, they need to find another line of work.
Agreed.