It's a partial victory, but I'm still disappointed that the state decided to proceed with a misdemeanor charge," Larry Handfield, Armstrong's attorney, told the Miami Herald.
Handfield said the resisting arrest without violence charge was inappropriate - and that Armstrong didn't deserve to be locked up or shot six times.
On the day of the March 7 shooting, Armstrong's mother called police pleading for help saying her son, 47, was suffering a mental health crisis. A standoff ensued as Armstrong stood on the porch of his mother's home in the Model City neighborhood near Liberty City facing at least a half dozen officers with guns drawn.
In an effort to subdue him, police shot him twice with a Taser. As he fell forward off the porch toward the officers, captured on video, Miami Police Officer Kassandra Mercado opened fire. She hit him six times, according to Armstrong's attorneys Benjamin Crump and Handfield.
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