We also know, so far as the article is reliable, that no weapon was recovered at the scene. I’d bet that that detail was accurate.
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I bet it is, too. All these determinations are easy when I’m in my soft chair in front of the computer screen reading about the event with hindsight.
The report about the police being told that the deceased was armed was probably accurate, too. It’s also likely that the officer who fired didn’t know the deceased was unarmed at the time.
Are officers trained to use their eyes? If a cop is told by somebody elese that someone is armed, he is thereby authorized to shoot him on the basis of someone else’s word? If the officer isn’t sure, he ought to find out before shooting.
Nine times. If the man was armed and had gottne a shot off, that would be entirely different.