mate, et al., please forgive the reading err of the previous link it was an unintentional oversight and i have removed my incorrect post
that stated...here is another news report, sorry but the OPs cite w/ST's headline 'witness says she saw gun...' then in the article it states...'she couldn't get a good look from her position in the police car...' eh who ya going believe...
http://www.thestranger.com/slog/201...omplied-with-police-commands-before-his-death
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Two plainclothes officers confronted Taylor, yelling at him, "Get down on the ground!" and "Hands up!" They approach him, rifles drawn, as he stands at the passenger side of the car. He puts his hands up for a split second, then ducks down. The department has been highly selective with the information it has released so far.
The SPD says Taylor ignored police commands. But after repeatedly viewing the dashcam video, two of the former officers said it shows
Taylor complying with officer directives. A third former officer said those
commands may have been contradictory and confusing.
Richard Lichten, a former Los Angeles-area cop who has testified as a police practices expert, focused on the content of the commands themselves. "If one officer says get your hands up, and another says get on the ground, who do you believe?... That can be confusing."
I also spoke to a police officer who
just retired from the King County Sheriff's department after more than two decades on the force. He spoke on condition of anonymity. "From what I saw, he was told to get down, and he was getting down. And while he was down,
I don't know what prompted them to shoot... He's getting down. But we can't tell if he's getting all the way on the ground."
"He was obeying commands," the former officer said. "And it looks like the other officer was going in to take control of him, when the officer with the rifle began to shoot."
Here's something we do know: One of the officers who fired at Taylor is Michael Spaulding.
And there are two things we know about Spaulding. He killed an agitated, mentally ill man named Jack Sun Keewatinawin in 2013, after slipping and falling, arguing he had no choice but to defend himself.
The following year, Spaulding signed his name to desperate lawsuit, filed by almost ten percent of the police force, to block Department of Justice-mandated use-of-force reforms.
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now, list time i checked plainclothes badge carriers normally do not have a rifle at hand...
again sorry for the previous post where i misread the article...i think the gun on the floor of passenger seat and the 'driver's comments' might have lead me to believe the victim was in the passenger seat not standing outside against the passenger door.
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added...call me impressed these particular LEs involved have eidetic memory