No. Fouad Kaady did not "manage to break free," and the two officers never "tried to cuff him." On the contrary, they never even touched him with their hands, out of fear that he might get blood on them. Instead, they leapt out of their car and tasered him repeatedly, hollering "Go over there! Go over there or we'll taze you again!" the whole time. And when this injured man, out of his mind with pain and shock, finally got up and tried to comply with their order to "go over there," they tased him again.
He did what any reasonable person would have done under the circumstances. He tried to get away from the pain. The only way out, away from the torture from these sadists, was blocked by the police car. He tried to climb up on the car to get away from them. And they shot him.
They lied when they said they tried to reason with him first. The tapes are clear: There was only 28 seconds between the time they saw his sitting peacefully in the road and jumped out of the car, and the moment that they shot him to death. No time to say all of the things they claimed they said. No time for anything but tasers and death. The police lied. Call them on it.
Do not make excuses for that.
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