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In reply to the discussion: I fully understand that this post is likely to draw very intense personal criticism but, at my age, [View all]StarfishSaver
(18,486 posts)I asked that question in another OP and got no good answers from the "he should have just complied" crowd.
It doesn't matter what happened before, as you said. It's irrelevant whether or why he was out at that time of night or where his parents were or even whether he had engaged in illegal activity. As soon as that cop ordered him to stop and put his hands up, everything else became completely irrelevant and the only thing that mattered was what happened in that moment. And in that moment the child complied with the officer. At that point the cop had the obligation to reassess the situation as it stood in that moment to determine the level of threat and next steps. Shooting that child less than a second after he complied and before taking any measure of the level of immediate threat facing him is inexcusable.
As for the question, the apparent answer for many people here is that it doesn't matter what he does at that point because his behavior up until then condemned him to death no matter what he does from here on.