From [HERE] Video posted online this week by the Los Angeles Police Department shows two officers approach a man they believed was armed with a gun in South L.A. in March and immediately shoot him.

Jose Barrera, 45, did not have a gun or any other weapon, but was holding a black cellphone and waving it around. He survived.

The shooting is the latest in which LAPD officers opened fire after misjudging the threat posed by an individual, in part based on inaccurate claims from others — including 911 callers — that the people were brandishing firearms.

The video is a remixed and edited version of reality in that it is a compilation of video and audio taken from different sources and audio. Only the uncut body cam video would show exactly what the officers saw and when they saw it - said info is the only information relevant as to whether their shooting was justified.

In the video from Barrera’s shooting that the department posted to YouTube on Thursday, a 911 caller tells a dispatcher in Spanish that a man with a gun is pointing it at people along Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard. The dispatcher asks the man if it is a small gun, and he then says he doesn’t know exactly what the man is holding.

However, police don’t answer or hear 911 calls; the dispatch does. The dispatch then communicate directly to police in what is generally called a “radio run.” The cops in this incident didn’t talk to whomever called. Obviously, cops are trained to respond to what they perceive with their own senses in the present moment as it happens.

The call went out over the police radio as a man pointing an “unknown type handgun at passersby.”

Later, as responding officers Tatiana Bohorquez and Manuel Rios are driving toward the scene, a voice can be heard on the radio stating, “He does have a handgun, and he’s firing at a house right now.” Silent gun shots ….. heard by the dispatch or police? how fantastic.

“Oh, s—,” Bohorquez, who is driving, can be heard saying.

Next in the remixed video, Rios, in the passenger seat, then opens the passenger side door of the patrol vehicle as it is still moving and holds his handgun at the ready in his right hand.

“You might have to shoot. You might have to shoot,” Bohorquez says as they pull up near Barrera.

Rios then immediately opens fire, seeming to fire four rounds down the street at Barrera.

No “passerby[s]” were present or being threatened.

Cops never warned the Latino Man, gave him any orders or announced even their presence.

Timestamps on the body-worn video the department posted showed that the officers then waited about 10 minutes to begin approaching Barrera with a group of other officers. Barrera was handcuffed and taken to a local hospital for treatment.