Again you are just shifting the issue to try to save face, and making assumptions to fit your theory like "There was every reason to believe they were still armed."
So how do you know that? Were you there? What could "every reason" mean, since it turned out the person was not armed.
Your unsupported statement that "The cops were facing a threat that any reasonable person would feel is a lethal threat" is unsupported by evidence, unless you were a witness or participant in the event.
The discussion isn't about criminal responsibility, even though you'd like to shift it to that. The discussion is about the lack of training, or bad tactics, or inappropriate attitudes which lead to a six year old getting killed, along with another person who we now know was not a danger to the officers that shot them.
And in reality, the discussion is ultimately about how to prevent kids like Kameron Prescott from getting killed. Which is the reality here.
So look at that picture, and think about that kid, and imagine yourself shooting him. And see if you don't think the police on the scene shouldn't have done something differently.
Alright, let me try explaining this to you.
Are you aware that guns do not dissolve minutes after they’re produced? Are you aware of this?
Do you understand how it’s reasonable to think someone is armed when minutes earlier they put a gun in your face and threatened to kill you with it?
Are you aware that cops do not possess psychic powers? Are you aware of that? That a nonpsychic person may not know that somone who they saw minutes earlier with a gun may have tossed it?
The cops absolutely had reason to believe she was armed. You’re doing a logically bereft tactic of taking knowledge acquired àfter an incident and asserting everyone should have known it throughout. You’re using your hindsight to Monday morning quarterback what professionals should have done when you don’t know a single thing about how to do their job to begin with.
You’re pulling a Michael Brown supporter tactic here.
I love this “lack of training line”. It’s like the slob on the couch yelling at the tv how Drew Brees doesnt know what he’s doing. Almost never said by someone who is an expert in the field being discussed.