from this linked article about an unarmed guy who got shot by the po-leece:
'One officer told Dillon Taylor to get on the ground, while another told him to put his hands on his head.
"He got confused, he went to pull up his pants to get on the ground, and they shot him," Jerrail Taylor said.'
setting aside for the moment that taylor, a parolee, had ample reason to believe the police would feel within their rights to initiate contact with him, he looks approximately like every other white guy in existence, and cops don't really have much but a mugshot to judge from.
it would seem that in cases where you, as a law enforcement officer, are not absolutely certain about the identity of the individual you're making contact with, you might want to try only giving one order to follow instead of two or three.
when you do it like this, it looks kinda like you used the state's authority to conspire to kill a man by ordering him to do the impossible under pain of execution.
... or that you've no business being law enforcement officers. i'm just waiting for the geniuses to get into a real life polish-firing-squad situation and start putting holes in each other's crackbuckets for a change. given law enforcement's track record on learning shit, it'll probably take 'em five years to figure out why it keeps happening, too. sounds like a joke, but you can easily imagine a situation where some member of a swat team is posthumously deemed "out of position" in the paperwork relieving his commanding officer of responsibility for "persons acting under department aegis".
if you ever wondered why police departments have that "maximum i.q." requirement...
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