Cops always talk about how stressful their job is. And they’re right.
But it is also stressful to have a cop’s gun pointed at you. And when a person is under that sort of stress, it’s easy to misunderstand commands, and to move a bit differently than the cop wants you to.
And that’s evidently what happened here. The suspect got confused, and he didn’t move (crawl, actually) so smoothly. So he was shot to death. Yeah Nick, I agree with you. That guy was murdered.
The officer told him he was going to kill him and he did. It wasn’t even whether the officer was threatened, it was some kind of perceived obedience. I don’t think the most law-abiding of any of us could have done any differently.
“Cops always talk about how stressful their job is. And they’re right.”
All the more reason they shouldn’t hire such collosal losers like this filthy prick. Nice going Mesa chief of police. Why dont you go down to Mexico for a dinner out since you are so close?
He reached back with his right hand, I believe to hike up his pants as they were likely being pulled down as he crawled on the floor.