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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)Was really an order to put his hands in the air so that if the gun was still in his hands, he was justified to shoot him? Except the gun wasn't still in his hands.
Under your logic, there was absolutely nothing Adam could have done at that point to save his own life. He dropped the gun and put his hands up and you think it was fine for him to be shot. If he had kept the gun in his hands and put his hands up, you probably would think it was justified for him to be shot.
So, in other words, as soon as Adam picked up that gun, you think it was justifiable for a cop to shoot him. He deserved to be shot dead and there was nothing he could have done to save himself - even dropping the gun and putting his hands up was not enough.
Maybe he should have just kept running. That way, he at least would have stood a chance of making it out of the encounter alive.