More often than not, it seems as if all you have to do to be shot and killed by police is stand a certain way, or move a certain way, or hold something--anything--that police could misinterpret to be a gun, or ignite some trigger-centric fear in a police officer's mind that has nothing to do with an actual threat to their safety. "You know, when police start becoming their own executioners, where's it going to end?.