when they killed him, he was out of rocks. He had walked a few feet, crossed a street, walked the length of a storefront and hand empty hands up.
This bullshit about "he was throwing rocks" justtified the shoot initially, but the cirumstances had changed and they were no longer justified to fire. They just did it because they had already started, and there was too much ego/testosterone to turn that shit off once they realized they just had an unarmed fleeing dude.
They wanted to waste his ass, period. They didn't turn off their deadly force when the "threat of a rock" had passed by a few seconds. Plenty of time to start shooting, not start a 2nd shoot.
Look at the leap you have to take to justify this piece of shit being able to keep his life.
So far this is what we know about him and the incident.
1. Meth use (we all have heard stories about those types. They are typically known as the most dangerous of all drug users)
2. Mental issues
3. History of threatening people with a firearm in his past.
4. Current history of attacking a police officer with deadly force.
5. His hands moving dangerously close to his own midsection when the police took him out.
6. It's a split second decision once he starts moving his hands around.
How you can go to bat for a scumbag like this and all those facts being known is beyond me.