Well said and documented! I really don’t get the people who are claiming the police shot this kid in “cold blood” for talking on his phone in a corner with a “toy” he picked up in another aisle in the store. It really doesn’t matter if it was a toy, BB gun or pellet rifle; the bottom line is as far as the police knows they are entering a store with a guy loading a rifle and pointing it at kids. They are not going to allow this guy to start spaying bullets down an aisle. They also do not know if this is some terrorist that may have accomplices and other weapons. If there is anyone to blame it is the 911 caller and unfortunately the kid who made a poor decision picking up a “toy” gun and swinging it around.
Just the kids “behavior with the gun” was not, as you say a typical shopper....some have said he was on a cell phone as well...am interested to know that conversation...could have been about the gun for all we know.
The blame goes ‘directly’ on the guys decisions ...it’s ‘his behavior’ and ‘his choice’ to throw a gun up over his shoulder and strut around through the aisle, (from where ever he picked up the gun) and continue to swing the gun around. (was it boxed and he took it out? Why if so?)
If I was watching that I would have also called 911 and spoken as the guy did who called...who by the way was not hysterical in the least, rather calm and careful to answer the questions as they were asked.
Further the gun did point at the kids while he was swinging it around...take a look at the couple kids who walked past the aisle early on in the video, not just the woman at the cooler...
What difference if he was “pointing it directly” or swinging it around....how many deaths have happened because idiots handle guns in such a way as they fire... ‘The guy had control’ of the gun..it was in his hand to swing it around or not.
And “why” did he go off to a secluded end of the store to “load it” or appear as if doing so?....his entire “behavior” was suspect of even someone who might well be stealing this gun.
All considered....the guy brought this on himself.