If you pull a dark metal object out of a holster and the cops think it’s a gun, you’re just as dead. You can call it murder. I call it suicide.
Call it whatever you like, it’s still wrongful death, and still should result in a murder charge.
Horrible mistake? absolutely.
Failure in training? without a doubt.
Unfair to the officer? they should be held to a higher standard, they have sworn an oath to defend the laws, and that oath trumps their personal safety.
I know many these days do not believe this to be the case, but just ask our brave volunteers who swear to defend the constitution,
if their own personal safety trumps their oath?
Back in the day when I took the oath,
it would be an act of cowardliness to put a citizen’s life beneath your own.