“I have a person unresponsive to car horn honks in my drive-through,” a Taco Bell employee could be heard saying, adding: “He’s unresponsive. I’ve already had, like, people try to knock on the window. I have no idea what’s going on.”

A dispatcher could then be heard calling for officers to do a “wellness check.”

Shortly after arriving, one officer could be heard saying: “Gun. Gun. Call it out. There’s a gun in his lap.”

About four minutes passed while the officers tried to open the car door and moved their patrol cars to box in Mr. McCoy’s vehicle. In the videos, which were partly obscured by the officers’ drawn weapons and outstretched arms, there was no indication that the police tried to awaken Mr. McCoy, although they were shining their flashlights into his car.

Referring to a gun on Mr. McCoy’s lap, one officer could be heard saying that the magazine appeared to be detached from the weapon and noting that if Mr. McCoy fired the gun, he would be able to shoot only once. But in a caption added to the footage, the police said that “in fact, the gun was loaded with an extended 14-round magazine, extending past the grip.”

At one point in the video footage, officers could be heard making a plan to open the car door, seize the gun and pull Mr. McCoy out of the car. “If he reaches for it,” said one of the officers, nodding.

“Yup,” said another. But they found the door locked, and Mr. McCoy appeared to remain asleep.

Eventually, Mr. McCoy could be seen beginning to stir, using his right hand to scratch at his left shoulder. “He’s moving, he’s moving,” an officer said. “He’s not up yet.”