Apparently you are as stupid as the person he was directing.
Since he wasn't told to keep his hands in the air. He was told to keep his hands pa;ms down on the ground. But then you do not impress me as a very intelligent person to begin with.
> he wasn’t told to keep his hands in the air <
I think he was. From the article:
At one point an officer tells him do not put your hands down for any reason, even saying, If you think youre going to fall, you better fall on your face. Then he says, Crawl towards me.
Oh, you prize your perception of intelligence, do you? My god, the idiocy that gets pawned off on the populace due to ego such as yours. This was murder and you’re still manning the barricades defending this piece of feces. What seems to be your major malfunction? Are you Mormon or something? Worried about the perception of Mesa, Arizona as a result of this utter abomination of a “trial” and acquittal?
This cop did nothing to deescalate the situation. It was him and five others armed with rifles, yet he acted like the obviously terrified man on his hands and knees, crying, begging for his life was some kind of major threat to everyone around him.
Officer Tacticool was looking for a reason to pull the trigger on his personal rifle, and he found one.