Why does a citizen with a broken-down car have to put his hands up in the first place? When did police become so anti-citizen agains the populations they are paid to "serve and protect" that a citizen is approached in a suspicious, hostile manner merely because his car breaks down? I can remember when police approached us to help us and unless we did something to indicate we were dangerous, they assumed we were law-abiding citizens in need of assistance.

I can plainly see why ethnic minorities, especially Black males, feel threatened by police. Just because your car breaks down, police approach you with orders to put your hands in the air, and how many others have been shot before you find yourself in that situation?

If I had my back turned, I wouldn't hear orders to stop or to do anything else, because I am hard of hearing and I can't hear people behind me, nor understand what they are saying if they are in front of me but a few feet away. Police need to be more careful.