I haven't seen anything about whether it was the front of the thigh or the back of the thigh, but it does look like he wasn't facing the officers.
The bullet in the side may have been shot by a policeman standing in a slightly different position from the others.
“it does look like he wasn’t facing the officers”
Wrong. There is video. He was not only facing them he was moving toward them, after having immediately prior run from them.
I’m curious, on what do or did you base this comment, “it does look like he wasn’t facing the officers”?