“Based on what’s reported, I don’t see a prob w/the cop firing if he orders to drop and the kid begins to turn.”
The implication is that if you were on your own property holding a weapon and an unknown someone came up behind you and ordered you to drop the weapon, you’d do so without reflexively turning to see who was giving the order.
Is that what you’d really do?
What if what you were holding wasn’t really a weapon as far as you were concerned, so you couldn’t drop “the weapon”?
“The implication is that if you were on your own property holding a weapon”
I don’t march around my property w/weapon in hand like a kid playing soldier. If I did do such a ridiculous thing and heard someone say to drop it, I’d stop and say “who’s there and why are you here?”
If the one asking had wanted to shoot me, they could’ve done so w/o warning.
So speaking, instead of turning w/weapon in hand, would be the option I choose.