As much as I am leary of cops I am on their side on this. If I drive up to this situation and see someone pulling out a gun on me they get shot. My BB gun is identical to my Kimber 1911.
I assume you probably wouldn’t knowingly pull right up to point blank range on a suspect to force a split second life or death decision?
It would be different if they were just walking by and the kid reached for the gun.
But here they already knew the deadly potential of the situation and there was no reason to respond without evening giving some space for a relatively safe encounter.
I get your point about if someone pulls a BB gun, and I totally agree. But that’s not the issue at all. The reasonableness of pulling right up and giving the kid less than one second to comply or die is the issue.
This video is just baffling. I’m honestly not sure the kid even had time to register that it was police and west was being demanded of him before he could do anything.
God forbid these cops get called by a psycho Moms Demand Action activist who calls them in a panic over a shopper on aisle 4 “with a gun” who is exercising his right to open carry.
If he’s holding a cucumber when they rush him he’s dead.