Then I was on the ground — with a gun pointed at me.
"Although we did get some intruders in the garden - and you felt suddenly that you were vulnerable - but when you'd go down there they'd be spread eagle on the ground with a gun pointed at their head".
He saw him lying on the ground with a gun lying next to his body.
The grainy video showing the officers pinning Sterling to the ground, holding a gun at his chest and then shooting him set off a firestorm.
On a separate occasion, an agent tossed an immigrant child to the ground, leveled a gun at him, and told the kid, "Stop or I will shoot you".
The Associated Press reports that a close-up of security footage does show Robertson "stretched out on the ground with a gun in his hand," and cites homicide Captain Steven Katz indicating the man repeatedly refused to drop it.
"One of the masked men came up to me, threw me on the ground, put a gun to my head and took my phone and my friend's camera," he said.
In an indictment filed in federal court, the man, Carlos Greene, 20, was charged with carrying a handgun on Capitol grounds, using a gun as part of a drug crime, resisting arrest and destroying government property — the fence his car crashed into.
Surely even Melbourne's rules of conduct can't allow an officer to throw a suspect to the ground and put a gun to his head.
