> But therein is precisely the problem - his ability to follow instructions. Ethan, like Adam, did not have this ability.
I find it disturbing that in the US, in practice, penalty for failing to comply with officer instructions during an arrest is a legally enforced death sentence. This seems a recurring theme in this kind of stories.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-nation/wp/2017/12/0...
> “If you move, we’re going to consider that a threat and we are going to deal with it and you may not survive it,” Langley says.
> “You do that again, we’re shooting you, do you understand?” Langley yells.
> “Please do not shoot me,” Shaver begs, his hands up straight in the air.
> At the officer’s command, Shaver then crawls down the hallway, sobbing. At one point, he reaches back — possibly to pull up his shorts — and Brailsford opens fire, striking Shaver five times.
> According to the police report, Brailsford was carrying an AR-15 rifle with the phrase “You’re F—ed” etched into the weapon. The police report also said the “shots were fired so rapidly that in watching the video at regular speed, one cannot count them.”
So a bully psychologically tortures his victim, kills him and in the end, is acquitted of murder... The mind boggles.
the officer yelling directions was prosecuted, and that obviously failed because he was not the one shooting
not sure how to prosecute that, or what procedures in Arizona are available
It reminds me of another incident recently where someone was swatted. As far as I remember the person was sitting on his balcony smoking a cigarette when when police decided to shoot him from across the road. Here is the video, it contains the call itself to keep context https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d0l6kwbglA4 . You could say they had a little more justification in this one, but is well, horrible.