In this particular case, you really need to read the (very short) excerpt. It is an impartial account by two NY reporters on the family members' suggestions for NYPD diffusing a gun situation:
"If he did have a gun, I could say, Yo, get rid of that, son. Thats not the right thing to have right now.
Nothing has changed since
2007. If you wanted to avoid me using the FR software to excerpt your article, you could originally have excerpted it to 50%.