There is some kind of training error here. The cop threatens the victim, shouting hands up, don’t move, shut up, now move. In this situation the victim is forbidden by the cop from communicating any problem that he might encounter in following the cops new order to move. An innocent , foreseeable and apparently foreseen mistake by a young man is punished by execution. If the cop felt so threatened then why not ask for more backup? And Should not the command be lie down with hands behind his back? If there is not enough room for a second cop in that corridor then time for a diet. If the problem was a faulty training then can the family sue the city?
The one shouting the orders is not the shooter.
Second. There is a longer version...like 25 minutes long that is much more telling.
The cops got up to the hallway/room and didn’t have a damn keycard. Instead they send 2 team members down to the front desk to get it and call the room. Why call the room? Because they’ve been in the hallway yelling from 3 doors down for the woman to come out. Now, if this is a decent hotel they likely are only hearing muffled shouting in the hallway...not a swat team demanding them to come out of the room. This also means they had know idea who they were dealing with. No name, no idea for the reason he was there etc. In fact, if they had checked with the front desk and pulled the man’s record and found it to be clean, they may have approached this much more differently.
While difficult to see on the bodycam, it is clearly evident the poor guys shorts were making it difficult to follow the officer’s Simon Says demands.
Finally, in the longer video you here the woman telling the office escorting her out of the building...they shot an innocent man.
I agree when Shaver was initially laying down in the hallway officers had the best opportunity to approach him and arrest him for his crime of innocence. Requiring him to move/crawl in an awkward manner, which even a sober person not under-duress would have had trouble doing, was an extremely bad call on the part of the officers.
They threatened this man that if he even lost his balance and he tried to prevent injury from the fall ...they would kill him. Think about that for just one moment. Here you are barefoot in the hallway and your shorts are halfway falling down...and someone is telling you to cross your legs and crawl towards them? That’s just messed up!
Also the officer barking the orders left the United States and is hiding out in the Philippines.