[Tom Joad]

Originally Posted by Zeke

If by "assault" you mean appropriately ask someone to get out of public roadways so that an officer -- or any other citizen -- can get through in their car...

That's one account.

The Cop version.

There's another.

Originally Posted by bobabode

Two versions here. http://www.stltoday.com/news/local/c...780f79d8f.html

Another eyewitness corroborated parts of the first. The kid was running away when shot a second time, he stopped and raised his hands in surrender and the officer pumped two more rounds into him.

“Me and my friend was walking down the street in the middle of the street. And we wasn’t causing any harm to nobody. We had no weapons on us at all. … A police officer squad car pulled up and when he pulled up these were his exact words: ‘Get the F on the sidewalk.’ … He reversed his … car in a manner to where it almost hit us. … He tried to brush his door open but he was so close to us that it ricocheted off us and it bounced back to him, and I guess that, you know, got him a little upset. And at that time ... he didn’t get out the car, he just reached his arm out the window and grabbed my friend around his neck and … as he was trying to choke my friend, he was trying to get away, and the officer then reached out and he grabbed his arm to pull him into the car. … His weapon was drawn and he said, ‘I’ll shoot you’ or ‘I’m going to shoot,’ and in the same moment the first shot went off. And we looked at him, he was shot, and there was blood coming from him, and we took off running, and as we took off running,