Have you seen the video? Link
For the 7 minutes prior to the police arrival the kid is wandering around playing with the gun. There was nobody else in the park. Nobody being threatened. Then the police show up at about the 7:10 mark and at 7:13 the kid is shot and on the ground. Three seconds. Three seconds it took for the officer to shoot the kid. How do you issue a warning or try and defuse the situation or even determine if there is any threat in three freakin' seconds?
No, I hadn’t, I didn’t feel strongly one way or the other about the officer. I was just taken aback by the size of the boy and thought that he probably looked like an adult who had a real gun.
If it happened as you say then I hope that justice prevails and the officer is found guilty and given the maximum sentence.