He was impaired and had no clue what was going on around him let alone the commands. The kid pulled up his shorts out of pure uncontrollable unconscious habit.
He had done the exact same out of habit a couple times prior as he crawled forward yet did not produce a gun. The officer shot him simply because he defied his orders one too many times and he was not going to have it based on egotistical authoritarianism.
If someone has the unconscious habit of reaching up and adjusting their eye glasses, should they be shot just because they moved to fast to unconsciously adjust their glasses and an officer felt threatened?
That’s exactly how I feel.
See this post:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3801853/posts?page=65#65
Also, he was not a kid. That was the sort of claim made about Trayvon Martin. I had so many white liberals telling me he was a child and Zimmerman was a “child murderer.” One even inexplicably “yelled” at me, online, that GZ was a “baby killer.”
And as I said in post 65, being intoxicated doesn’t absolve someone of any legal responsibilities. I’m sure you know it doesn’t make a person innocent when they get behind the wheel of a car. Shaver broke serious safety rules on the use and handling of guns that night, and while you say that he didn’t know what was going on, he also answered many of the officers’ questions and instantly complied with many of their directions. But when asked if he could hear and follow their directions, he said yes. And when asked about being drunk, he said he wasn’t. And when asked to confirm that because he wasn’t drunk, he therefore wouldn’t have any trouble following their directions, he said he wouldn’t. While it’s only opinion, I have to think he would have lived through that incident, more likely than not, if he’d told the police that he’d been drinking and had had quite a lot.