First of all, whether he had his finger on the trigger is not something that any cop wants to take a chance on, a gun pointed is a gun that could cause an officer to be buried by his peers. Second of all, I have over 33 years in law enforcement and know something about being in this officers situation, Chief.
Like you, I will wait for the final verdict before commenting any deeper.
LOL! The verdict is already in. The tank truck full of whitewash is pulling up to the scene.
It's over.
Why wait for all the facts?
You have already made an assumption which I think is very unlikely. Why would the guy point a plastic toy at a cop? I guess it is possible that he didn’t know it was a cop who jerked his door open. Then he might have pointed his plastic toy hoping to ward off the robber or car jacker.
Well since his buddies are doing the investigation we all know how that will turn out.
At least the officer went home safe. After all that’s all that’s important