“If I’m wrong, I’ll admit it, but I seem to remember the story that way”
You did get it wrong...I watched the video a couple of times. The cops drove up to him within 5 or to 10 feet, the car stopped and within a second you heard the gunshot. The cops claimed the gun was in his pants and he reached for it.
One second is not enough time for the kid to process the situation and react. Is also not enough time for the cop to identify the toy gun and react. If it was in his pants the wouldn’t be able to see an orange tip even if it had one...
The toy gun tip is a red herring anyway, because you can put one on a real gun and take one off a toy gun. The existence of one or absents of one wouldn’t give you the information needed to make a life and death decision. The cops lacked the situational awareness to deal with it and they F@cked up big time.
Notice in my post I used the word “homicide”. I used that term because it absolutely WAS a homicide, by definition.
YOU'RE the one that has the wrong perspective.