Some witnesses told police that Brown was surrendering with his hands up when he was shot.
And he certainly remembers surrendering, with his hands above his head, after being surrounded: "I was single, a young man.
Don't go out on your balconies!" A teen-age boy ran toward them, surrendering, with his hands raised above his head.
To the protesters who chanted, "Hands up! Don't shoot!," Brown was a symbol of the young African-American man as victim — the chant referred to the claim that Brown was surrendering, with his hands up, when he was killed.
DILI, East Timor (AP) — The suspected gunman in an assassination attempt on President José Ramof-Horta of East Timor wept on Tuesday after surrendering with 11 other mutinous soldiers and handing over their automatic weapons.
Furthermore, ballistics evidence established that trooper Harper shot Assata twice, and the trajectory of the first bullet proved that she was surrendering with both hands in the air at the time.
