Carrying no Firearm At All

The aforementioned rules also apply to perceived guns. Police say they mistook Stephon Clark’s iPhone for a gun, a common mistake. Rumain Brisbon was carrying a prescription bottle that police assumed was a firearm. Cops allegedly
thought Amadou Diallo’s wallet was a gun.

Walking around empty-handed doesn’t matter. Baltimore police officers admitted that they kept toy guns to plant in case they shot a suspect.
 
Although black people make up only 13 percent of the population, 35 percent of the unarmed people killed by police in 2017 were black.