aight now this one's forgetin ridiculous
spray whatever rhetoric you desire, but this guy got shot in the head for waving down a cop and brandishing a towel. this is not okay.
You make it sound so black and white. We don't know for certain that that was really all that he did. Perhaps the cops suspected a threat? After all, the article did say the officers believed he was concealing a weapon (they ordered him to "drop the gun"), and that the guy didn't respond to their order and instead "extended his arm" at them.
Like Narkro just said;
Apparently they thought he was concealing a weapon in the towel. He then pointed his arm at them. Then they shot him.
I'm not sure why you'd hide a gun in a towel, but the police had some reason behind shooting him. Probably the same reason someone was shot by police for turning around and taking his hands out of his pockets.
So it's possible the cops were sincerely afraid the guy was about to shoot them with whatever this concealed weapon was he (actually did not) have, and thus acted with deadly force. It's only a
possibility, however. We don't know all the details yet, so no one can justly dictate who was and wasn't innocent in this incident.
"he might have a gun, or it just might be his arm, what should we do? should we point our guns at him? "
"nah we should just shoot him right in the face. go for the killshot, that gets you more XP"
"oh forget yeah dude"
Shooting in the head is the most efficient way to eliminate a potential threat. If he actually did have a gun and intended to shoot them with it, shooting him in the abdomen or any other body area cannot guarantee he won't still be able to shoot back. Regardless, I doubt the cops would have had the time to even have half that conversation.
This just happened and there is still a lot of things that will have to be sorted through, found out, and determined for certain. We should be careful not to jump to conclusions, and to not make one-sided, biased or baseless assumptions about who was and wasn't innocent.
