Re: Hostage situations...
"All of this confirms what I think I will do if ever I find myself facing a bunch of US cops with their guns out for me: hands up, drop to my knees, hit the ground and spread-eagle. If they want to talk to me after that, I'll be listening, but I won't move until they tell me I can or come and cuff me."
Even that doesn't work all the time :-(
And even then the cops get away with it ... This guy was innocent of any crime, but this is how his execution went down:
The body camera footage shows Shaver on his knees in the hotel hallway, a few feet away from the barrel of a police officer's gun.
"Hands up in the air," an officer says.
Shaver puts his hands on the floor, then behind his back, then moves them forward again before an officer yells "Hands up in the air!" Shaver moves his hands up above his head.
"You do that again, we're shooting you, do you understand?" the officer said.
"Please, do not shoot me," Shaver said.
"Then listen to my instructions," the officer said.
"I'm trying to just do what you say," Shaver said.
"Do not put your hands down for any reason!" the officer later says to Shaver. "You think you're going to fall, you better fall on your face. Your hands go back in the small of your back or down, we are going to shoot you! Do you understand me?"
"Yes, sir," Shaver says, sobbing.
An officer then orders Shaver to crawl toward him. As Shaver crawls, he appears to reach behind him with his right hand.
That's when Brailsford fired five rounds, killing him.
More: https://edition.cnn.com/2017/12/10/us/arizona-jury-acquits-ex-cop-of-murder/index.html
Biting the hand that feeds IT
