Thanks for posting that. This describes the facts that any jury or judge would have heard, and while the officers may have been mistaken, they were fully justified in shooting.
People out there don’t realize how fast these things go down. I have a family member who is a police officer, and one thing that the police say is that in certain situations, when somebody goes for a gun, there’s going to be only one person who goes home that night - and they want to be that person.
The judge, like the undercover cop, is obviously, and blissfully, unaware of the existence of hip-hop music, their use in privately derived ringtones, or the name Eminem.
I doubt you could find a jury in NYC that didn't have at least 3 or 4 members fully cognizant of those three elements of modern life.
Someones cellphone rang with a ringtone created from Eminem's chorus of "Gonna' get my gun".
They'd still be in session Fur Shur.
In the end even the Prosecutor's office seems to be woefully devoid of having anyone in it who knows anything about such things.
I'd like to suggest that this sort of decision is the kind you'd get in the third-world where the elites don't particularly know, nor do they care, just as long as they, themselves, are safe.
Darned shame these people couldn't have been taken before a jury of folks from Queens.