As this thing progresses there are certainly conflicting stor ies. I wonder if the actual facts will finally surface. If he was doing what the initial reports said he was doing...then the marshalls had no other choice.
I just can't imagine the shooting of a passenger who was calm and complied with requests from the air marshalls.
Heheheh. That does give pause - I bet there would good order on flights if that DID happen from time to time.
So far all of the eyewitness accounts agree that the guy was not calm; and it's a fair assumption that the shooter was not satisfied that the guy was submitting to orders.
Reminds me a bit of the kid in Queen Anne County, Maryland who had the misfortune of being in a car that matched the description of a car reported involved in a bank robbery. Plainclothes officers ordered him out of the car, and the kid was shot in the face for making what was apprehended as a threatening move.
This case, given the official account, is a slam dunk, because not only was the guy not calm, he was yelling that he had a bomb or some other words that amount to an unambiguous bomb threat.
I think facts will surface, eventually, however many people will already have decided what they think and won't let facts get in the way of that. I'm going to try not to be one of those people.
susie