Southern California police shot and killed a Black man Saturday as he ran away from them while allegedly holding a gun, video showed.
The family of 23-year-old Rob Adams, however, says he was likely holding his cellphone instead of a gun because he had been talking to his mother when police arrived. His family expects to file a legal claim, a precursor to a lawsuit, on Thursday.
Two officers, who were wearing uniforms but driving an unmarked car, saw Adams pull a gun out of his waistband and begin walking toward the cruiser with the firearm in his hand, according to San Bernardino Police Chief Darren Goodman. The video shows Adams almost immediately turn around and run toward two cars that were parked up against a high wall.
"Being that Adams never aimed the gun, was approached by an unmarked vehicle, and was shot while fleeing, therefore plausible criminality does not exist," Reynoso wrote Tuesday on Twitter. "In the end, Robert Adams is dead at the hands of the San Bernardino Police Department."
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