Did Police Lie About the Fatal Shooting of a Florida Man? Sure Looks Like It

On July 31, 2013, 33-year-old Jermaine McBean walked through his Florida apartment complex with an unloaded air rifle propped on his shoulders.
Three residents who saw McBean strolling around with the rifle became concerned and called 911.
The officers who responded to the call claim that they repeatedly yelled to McBean to drop his weapon, but the man didn’t comply, and that he turned and pointed the rifle at them.
Shots were fired.
McBean fell on his back, howled in pain and said, ‘It was just a BB gun.’
Moments later, McBean was dead.
Nothing, the officers swore under oath, would have stopped McBean from hearing the officers screaming orders to drop the gun.
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McBean was shot by Broward County Deputy Peter Peraza. Police documents show that Peraza insisted to a homicide detective that there was nothing in McBean’s ears that would have prevented him from hearing officers ordering him to drop his rifle. The detective told the family that officers at the scene ‘confirmed’ that, reports NBC.
But a woman who witnessed the shooting noticed something that may explain why McBean didn’t drop his gun:

This post was published at The Daily Sheeple on June 2, 2015.