If the article is true, Hurley should have put the perp's weapon down immediately when he saw the responding officer. Step away from it with hands in the air.
Precisely my thinking. God rest his soul.
At best, he should have kicked the AR-15 out of the way and not touched it. Why get your fingerprints on it at all? (Of course, this assumes that the shooting cop is telling the truth about the citizen holding the bad guy’s AR-15.)
“If the article is true, Hurley should have put the perp’s weapon down immediately when he saw the responding officer. Step away from it with hands in the air.”
That probably would have saved his life. It’s what I plan to do if I am ever in that situation. Or perhaps just lie on the ground with my hands on my head.
I’m going to be too busy not drawing friendly fire to worry about my dignity.