I’m glad the city is paying something, but the cop should be charged at least with manslaughter. (I think a good prosecutor could have gotten a conviction on that. My guess is the prosecutor didn’t want to ruffle cop feathers, for whatever reason.)
I watched the video, and it is just incredible. If *I* had been the poor guy who was accosted by the cop, I would have gotten shot too! Because just about the time I would have figured out that someone *behind me* was yelling at me, and finally figured it out a bit, and turned around . . . I would have been shot dead. I think the same is true for many people. Plus the poor man was deaf. Anyone who can watch that video and tell me it is NOT a bad shoot is not living in the same world I am.
Not only that the cop could have, should have known he was deaf.
In downtown Seattle the cops better know who the homeless are, what are their quirks etc.