Apparently he moved his hands toward his waist...regardless of the multiple shouted instructions, had he not moved his arms toward the weapon he might still be alive...it seems from the article that he voluntarily said “I’m disarming”, and started to move his arm down...that’s not what the cops wanted him to do...they wanted him to follow THEIR instructions not his own...he wasn’t complying ...should they have shot him Hell No! They shouldn’t have fired until they saw actual gun metal...how do they know he was actually armed? they never saw a gun they only had a report of one. So many mistakes led to this tragedy the ccw holder, the security and the cops.
same article states one of the *orders* was "drop it" or "put it down"...which myself and several other posters have already ribbed you about...very possibly in a split second he thought 'disarming' would diffuse their adrenaline ???
most witness accounts indicate that he prolly didnt even realize that he was a target, he was simply evacuating as instructed along with the herd, then was suddenly singled out and given conflicting commands, merely seconds before the opened up...not much chance to logically think thru the proper response to their conflict, unless you rehearse the scenario regularly...
any *reach* was/would be a mistake for sure...but the one certainty is that if the cops hadnt showed up in a frenzy, because somebody saw a *GASP* gun, he wouldntve been shot...
>.it seems from the article that he voluntarily said “I’m disarming”, and started to move his arm down...that’s not what the cops wanted him to do...they wanted him to follow THEIR instructions not his own...he wasn’t complying
So “Drop the weapon!!” /= an instruction to disarm?
How do you get that?