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Using the justification that ‘some people on the street lie’ when the person who was shot has their hands up, no.
the logical extension of justifying what this officer did is saying that even if one is supine, hands up they can still be shot with justification.

If they were shuffling towards an officer and refused to take their hands out of their pockets? Yeah it would be different.

I mean even if the officer had no reason to trust them, the guy is lying there doing any and everything you or I could or would do to avoid having their patient or themselves shot.

So, what should the person have done to avoid being shot?

Using the justification that ‘some people on the street lie’ when the person who was shot has their hands up, no.

That the man had his hands up before he was shot, is obviously true. Whether the man had his hands up when he was shot is not necessarily established. Oddly, the Video does not cover that period of interest.

One would think that the man would keep his hands up and behave in a non-threatening manner, but one would also think that an officer wouldn't shoot someone who was behaving in such a way.

Perhaps it was a mistake or abuse on the part of a trigger happy officer, but after so many other examples of "facts" which turned out later not to be true, I am cynical that everything is really just as it has been presented.

I mean even if the officer had no reason to trust them, the guy is lying there doing any and everything you or I could or would do to avoid having their patient or themselves shot.

So far, we only have the man's word that this man was lying there harmless. Perhaps it is true, but then you have to make sense of why someone thought it was a good idea to shoot him.

So, what should the person have done to avoid being shot?

Well, I think for starters, a good idea is to stay away from the Police.

I think getting all the Cops to wear body cameras will certainly make it less likely that people won't get shot any more than necessary.

Getting back to my original point, the man's assertion that the other fellow was autistic and that he was holding a toy truck is not something you can necessarily accept until you can verify it yourself.

Officers are often faced with situations in which people will claim to have something other than a gun, and it is a foolish officer that will simply take someone at their word.