“When they told him to get down and comply, he did not at all,” said Bruce Cherry, one of hundreds of witnesses.Cherry said the suspect initially had his hands outside of his pockets.
“When they ran up on him, he went inside of his pockets and stuck both of his hands inside of his pockets and then that’s when they pulled out on him,” Cherry said. “That’s when the shots rang out.”
“Maybe one of the hundreds of witnesses will clear that up.”
Hopefully they do. I would like nothing better than to find out the cops did tell the truth here. But history shows it is best not to take their word for it.
Trash that if you like, but it isn’t my fault cops don’t have a word worth a steaming pile of (censored). They made that decision as sure as that Brown kid made his. If they had valued their word, the rest of us would too.
They walk around lying to people, in court, in reports, and other officers support those lies. Then they don’t fire proven liars, even though the value of a cop’s word should be a job requirement of the first order. Look up the Brady List, a list of cops who are useless on the stand, and still are cops. That is the measure of what LE thinks of their own word.
Even a lot of judges make it clear they don’t trust cops a bit. Who’s fault is that? So when a cop says something happened, especially if it involves a death, I’m not one to simply take them at their word as to what happened.