May never know what happened.
Like the Keith Scott shooting.
https://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/24/us/charlotte-keith-scott-shooting-video.html
According to the story below. He didnt take his medication. For some reason he stopped in the middle of the road. Then police were called you can see 5 police cars around him. Then he just started to move the car back. Towards the police car behind him.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4326550/Father-36-livestreams-fatal-shooting-police.html
Black father Facebook livestreams the moment he was shot dead by cops during traffic stop confrontation
- Rodney James Hess, 36, livestreamed his shooting in Tennessee on Thursday
- Cops say he tried to hit them twice in his car before he was shot dead
- Fiancee Johnisha Provost watched his killing live online as it unfolded
- The video captures the shooting but it's not clear what happens before the shot
- Hess, who was mentally ill, told cops he needed to talk to 'the higher commands'
- Provost said she told him to say that to police if he was having an episode
- Hess appears to be acting erratically, muttering about the CIA, before shooting
- His family said he was mentally ill, but 'was a functioning member of society'
Hess, who is from New Orleans and lives in Texas but had been visiting his mother in Memphis, can be heard screaming after being hit, then appears to crash his vehicle.
His phone drops to the floor and begins to ring, while the sound of breaking glass - possibly officers trying to open the car door - can be heard.
He died after being airlifted to hospital.
Hess's fiancee, Johnisha Provost, said that his request to speak to 'the higher command' was a sign that he was asking for help.
'He was not on a suicide mission,' she told the
Commercial Appeal Friday from their home in Texas.
'He was not trying to harm anybody. He was asking them for help and they shot him down.'
She explained: 'He couldn't get his mind together. That's why he asked for a higher command.
'I always told him, "Babe, if you are ever in a situation where you need help, ask the person in charge for the higher command to help you," and that's what he kept saying.'
Hess also streamed another video, prior to the traffic stop by Crockett County sheriff's deputies in which he acted oddly.
In the first, 17-minute long video he parks by the side of the road - with no police in sight - before walking around his vehicle, filming it. He then stands by the side of the road, filming passing cars.
A passerby stops to ask if he needs help, but he tells them, 'Nah, I'm good, go ahead.' They drive off.
At one point he moves his car so that is parked horizontally across one lane of traffic, then mumbles something about the 'CIA.'
He moves the car a number of other times before blocking the road again. Police are seen through a rear window pulling up just before the video ends.
Hess' cousin, Donald Hess III, said that the slain man was 'a father, a son and hard worker.'
'Rodney suffered from mental illness but was a functioning member of society. He often traveled for work - mostly construction work - and he did everything for his children,' he said.
Some livesteam commenters suggested that Hess might have been on drugs. Noey Torres, one of Hess's friends, responded: 'He was off his medication he was not on drugs.
'Rodney wasnt a user. He was a hard working family man who was in need of some medical help all u people talking like yall know something should be ashamed of yallselves.'
