"Do you have a gun?" Week 17 police killings

The first in a weekly feature at Where Do We Go From Here: A round up police shootings for the 17th week of this year.

“Yup,” he answered to the dispatcher when asked if he had a gun. “Nope,” he told her when she asked if he had a weapon on him.

Isiah Brown was holding a cordless house phone when he was shot 10 times by an officer who had previously given him a ride home that night. The cop apparently thought the phone was a gun and Brown was holding it to his own head, …