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The officer told the teen to "drop it, drop it," as Toledo, with a gun in his right hand, turned toward the officer, prosecutors said. The officer opened fire, striking the teen once in the chest. The gun Toledo was holding landed a few feet away, prosecutors said.

Wrong. I've take a freeze frame of the video a split-second before the shot, and the kid is clearing holding both empty hands in the air, with a "who me"? kind of shrug. If he did have a gun, he had already ditched it, and was empty-handed when he faced the cop.

There looked like an semi-automatic on the ground on the far side of the stockade fence about 10 feet away, slide back and locked, probably empty chamber.

The kid, when he is shot, is on the other side of the fence, about 6 inches to a foot in front of it, near a break in the fence, both hands are shown in the air, empty, clearly on the near side of the fence. It does not seem possible the the gun would have flown from his hands when he was shot, and landed on the far side of the fence.

If that was his gun, it seems he ditched it before the cop shot at him.

The national police union accuses the media of releasing a cropped (doctored) version of the full video:

National Fraternal Order of Police (FOP) @GLFOP Police cars revolving light @cbsnews

, please correct the record!

Your video of an officer-involved shooting was cropped & didn’t include a key piece of evidence: the suspect holding a gun.

Warning sign To the Media Outlets: by editing or cropping this type of footage, you jeopardize the safety of our communities.