A note on criminal technique: When attempting to fire, they will often yell blatant lies hoping to confuse those they intend to shoot. They do this, because sometimes it works, causing a moments hesitation in their victim.
Like in this case, *while* drawing down on the cops, as the cops opened fire, “he was screaming, ‘Stop! I’m not running,!’”
Which is technically true, he was not running. He was preparing to shoot the cops. Hardly a good justification for them ‘stopping’. In the right circumstances it might stimulate the crowd to turn on the officers as well.
This also works in other ways. Expert unarmed martial artists sometimes use the trick of beating the heck out of someone *while* profusely apologizing, pretending that what they are doing is a chain of accidents. This may cause some hesitation in their victim, or if done properly, also confuses onlookers as to what is really happening.
Contra the criminal technique; when presented a situation, watch the hands. All sorts of yelling and commotion when the cops show up, but I’m deaf. So there’s five sets of hands to scrutinize. Hand-hand-hand-hand-hand/firearm: GO. Sort it out later in a more civilized environment. No excuse to draw on the cops, or any citizen on the street. None at all. Do it and you’re dust. Lethal force is always bad PR as far as cops vs. bystanders go, but the wages of sin, or overconfidence in yourself just because you’re packing is....