The whole thing happened in less than 5 seconds.

He was standing in a gazebo in the park, and they rapidly pulled their car up in the grass right in front of him.

As they pulled up the officer allegedly yelled three commands out the door to "show his hands" (i.e. before actually getting out of the car).. The audio of this isn't available.

Tamir goes to pull the gun out and they shoot him.

The car had barely even stopped before he was down. He barely got the gun out before he was down.

My belief is that he was confused.

To me it seems likely that he thought they were telling him to drop the gun.

The story is that they pulled up yelling "show your hands!! show your hands!! show your hands!!"

I'm wondering if one of them actually said "Put the weapon down!" along with that.

The entire interaction was about 3 seconds.

The shooting officer has been on the job since March.

So part of the training issue that the deputy chief wouldn't go into detail about is whether it was appropriate to pull right up on him like that.

That obviously intensified the interaction.

Do I think it was a criminal act on the officer's part? No, not necessarily.

But it was wrong.

It was done poorly.

Tact would have prevented the loss of life.