“You need to educate yourself on this story.”
I read the story and indicated my opinion is based solely on what’s in it. I wasn’t interested in trying to hunt down police reports and court records because I’ve done so in the past and too often found that when critical details were left out of a story (like how the cop and kid came to meet each other) they were left out for a reason - to mislead.
I stand by my opinion on the first shot. Turning w/a weapon in your hand points it in the cops direction. I don’t believe the rule is that cops have to wait for a round to go off.
Holding a weapon is not enough to fire. Bringing it to bear is.
Again, w/no other info, I would’ve fired myself in that situation, but I’m not a cop.
So then I guess you missed this part:
Such a trajectory would appear to show that Lopez had only turned halfway to face Gelhaus by the time the first fatal shot was fired—in essence, that Lopez had no chance to see who was calling to him before he was struck with bullets.