The officer has the absolute authority to disarm a legally armed CHL holder while invetigating incidents (GC 411.207).
"Sir, hold still while I take your gun out of your belt" seems a lot smarter than "I'm going to watch you start drawing your gun before I decide if you're dangerous or not." From a distance, maybe that looks like the officer tried to "suddenly grab" the gun, since none of us heard the conversation.
No, I wasn't there. Nobody else in this discussion was either. But common sense tells me that if the officer was worried about this guy shooting things (which the caller admitted to, and which the officer has been sent there to investigate), it's probably in everybody's best interest to disarm the person, and disarming him starts with the idea that the cop doesn't want you to grab the gun; he will do it himself.
We've beaten this idea pretty hard: "Officer, I'm legally armed, it's in such-and-such location, how do you want to proceed?" If I call 911, tell them I've shot something, please send a cop (like I need to ask for a cop), and then grab my gun when the cop shows up, I expect bad things to happen.
"Sir, hold still while I take your gun out of your belt" seems a lot smarter than "I'm going to watch you start drawing your gun before I decide if you're dangerous or not." From a distance, maybe that looks like the officer tried to "suddenly grab" the gun, since none of us heard the conversation.
No, I wasn't there. Nobody else in this discussion was either. But common sense tells me that if the officer was worried about this guy shooting things (which the caller admitted to, and which the officer has been sent there to investigate), it's probably in everybody's best interest to disarm the person, and disarming him starts with the idea that the cop doesn't want you to grab the gun; he will do it himself.
We've beaten this idea pretty hard: "Officer, I'm legally armed, it's in such-and-such location, how do you want to proceed?" If I call 911, tell them I've shot something, please send a cop (like I need to ask for a cop), and then grab my gun when the cop shows up, I expect bad things to happen.