The witness said he looked to reach for the gun to remove it”
Look, I feel sorry for this guy, it doesn’t seem like he was a criminal, but that was a dumb move.
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On another thread the witnesses heard various things. “Get down” from one cop and “Drop the gun” from another. Of course if the gun was in the holster, as the witnesses say, he would have to reach for the gun first.
Several Freeper’s commented that the thing to do in that case is to keep your hands in the air and tell the cops the gun is on you right hip and let them get it. And as an earlier freeper commented - sounds like this stuff needs to be practiced by those that carry. In all the confusion with three cops yelling different things, pointing guns at you, probably wondering if they are really talking to YOU (Me? What did I do wrong?) it would be easy to be confused on what to do in the stress of the moment.
I once witnessed a cop shout “drop the gun” at a doper with a gun in San Francisco. The cop started shooting about .1 second after he said that. 2 cops shielded by their cruiser proceeded to empty their clips into him at a range of about 30 yards. The guy had no chance to follow their commands even if he wanted to. A cop does not wait around waiting for a moving person to drop a gun. The only thing that could have saved Scott was putting his hands up and not moving. Anything else he could have done wouldn’t have saved him. These cops were primed to blast him.