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I don’t care if his hands were up or not. The cop did not ask him to put his hands up. And he was not stopped for anything dangerous. The female cop said he just put his hands up. And she just shot him through the heart because he did something unexpected.

You get car trouble. A cop stops and starts asking you a bunch of questions. You are not under arrest. You have no reason to believe you are under arrest. The cop has seen nothing to presume you are a danger. And still if you make one wrong move you are a corpse. That is not America.

This man was presumed to be deadly dangerous to this cop. She presumed her life was in danger. Even though he did not show any deadly force or anger (ability or motive to hurt her).

These two are not equals here. She is a professional. He is a random citizen. In Rural North Carolina a black man has a well below national average IQ. Her job is to efficiently resolve the issue without harm to any persons or property. The issue in this case is a disabled car in the middle of a highway. She let the situation escalate to the point where she was afraid and shot to kill the guy. That is bad policing no matter how you look at it.