You were at the scene, correct?
were you? someone with a ‘toy’ designed to look like a real firearm already has issues. put that person in a neighborhood teeming with illegal weapons...remove the orange safety tip identifying the ‘toy’ as a toy, and it looks like a real AK-47. now have someone point one at you.
my guess is that you would have fired as well, and/or have brown trousers.everyone i know of would have done just as the cops did.
this travon wannabe made the mistake of altering not one, but TWO guns by removing the orange tips, and his parents seemed oblivious of that fact.
would you let your kid wander the streets with a AK lookalike? it’s sad that this kid paid the price, but really...put yourself in the situation of the cop.