When police arrived minutes later, witnesses said, Becker dropped his handgun, raised his hands — and then an officer with a rifle shot him in the hip.

The gunman Becker confronted was initially concealed from police behind a cooler, said Raymond Watts, 28. The Kansas City man said he was in a vehicle with his two children on 23rd Street near the store.

“I was figuring, ‘How the hell do they shoot him?’ He never pointed a gun at the cops,” Watts said. “He complied with everything they said … and then you heard a pop.”

Gunfire then broke out between police and the gunman, who was wounded, said Watts and his girlfriend, Whitney Thomas of Raytown.

No officers were injured.

Whitney Thomas, also told the Kansas City Star that Becker’s gun was clearly on the ground at the time police opened fire. “His gun was on the ground. He didn’t have it in his hands any longer,” she said.

“I understand as police you have to put your life on the line … but to take it into your own judgment to shoot an innocent man when he didn’t fit the description?” Thomas added.

Some of those that Becker saved were shouting at the police officers that they had shot an innocent man, and Becker’s wife, Amber, said that some were mentioning to her daughter that her father was shot and killed.

Both Becker and the robber were wearing two different color jackets and while Becker is heavier, the gunman was much more slender. Becker complied with the orders to drop his weapon as the other man proceeded to fire at police.

John Syme, a spokesman with the Independence Police Department, would not say much on Saturday except that police responded to a call of an armed robber and that when they got there both men were armed.

Sounds to me like we have a trigger happy policeman looking for a reason to shoot his rifle.

In a followup story, The Star reported:

Investigators canvassed the area for surveillance footage from surrounding businesses. An employee at the nearby Church’s Chicken, located across the street from the Dollar General, said police had obtained video from the restaurant.

Syme said any dashcam footage or business surveillance footage would likely not be released to the public “to preserve the integrity of the investigation.”

Independence officers are not equipped with body cameras, he added.

Well, dashcam footage should really be enough, don’t you think?

Will the truth actually come out in what took place here?  Watch the video below.

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Colin Noir's bullshit gets proven wrong yet again.

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Gonna get paid.

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While I'm sure he's happy to be not dead, I don't think I'd be grinning like I won the lotto.

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He might get some "Shut-up And Go Away" money, but that's about it.

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He shouldn't have gotten in the way of the bullet. Officer was just doing his job.

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While I'm sure he's happy to be not dead, I don't think I'd be grinning like I won the lotto.

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He might get some "Shut-up And Go Away" money, but that's about it.

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I'd be happy that Officer Final Defensive Fire was a poor shot.

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Gonna get paid.

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Who robs a Dollar store anyway?

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Shooting cop should be charged just as if roles were reversed and the citizen accidentally shot the cop.

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Colin Noir's bullshit gets proven wrong yet again.

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Should get paid, medical covered and that officer who shot him should go to jail for attempted murder. IF what's reported is true, accurate and complete. It's possible since he was shot in the hip some dumb fuck officer had his finger on the trigger when he shouldn't have, had lowered the rifle off center mass some when...pop /insert officer thinking "shit/ aw fuck" here. In which case above minus attempted murder and add some lesser charge in its place.

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There wasn't any "accidentally" about it.

The cop shot him deliberately.  Mistakenly too, but it was not an accident.

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While I'm sure he's happy to be not dead, I don't think I'd be grinning like I won the lotto.

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Who robs a Dollar store anyway?

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Shooting cop should be charged just as if roles were reversed and the citizen accidentally shot the cop.

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Who robs a Dollar store anyway?

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The cop missed the COM shot by more than a foot, and shot an unarmed man who had his hands up.  That's some mighty fine police work in the "Show Me" state.