Don Geer says his son had his hands raised for about a half an hour and lowered them slightly. He says as his son’s elbows fell in alignment with his shoulders, but hands still in air, that’s when he heard the shot.
Don Geer says he watched his son grab his side, where he’d been hit, and use his other hand to close the door. Don Geer said he wanted to help, but police ‘herded him like cattle’ away from the scene. He said he was in shock, but assumed police would administer medical attention. They did not, his son “bled out,” Don Geer said.
More than an hour later, after a tank arrived and rolled toward John Geer’s front door, heavily armed officers wearing camouflage went in the door and found John Geer dead.
Oh, so the story also involves an actual use of militarized police. Just the sort of thing the folks at Reason would want to talk about, except they haven’t in the year since it occurred. Not sexy enough, I guess.
How about that earlier case involving an unarmed eighteen-year-old white man shot and killed by a black police officer? I guess Reason missed that one, too.