If the cop said, "Drop it", it would be clear that the cop thought the kid was still armed.
If the kid had dumped the gun out of view of the cop, it would be reasonable for the cop to believe the kid was still armed.
The cop said “Show me your f*cking hands.” And the image in post #19 shows that the kid did exactly he was ordered to do. And he wasnt holding a gun at the time.
For what I can tell, this was a bad shoot. But I will cut the cop some slack on this one. He wasn’t grossly negligent like that gun/taser female cop was.
This cop gave a reasonable - but wrong - command in the heat of the moment. If the cop held yelled “Freeze!”, or better yet, “Get on the ground!” we probably wouldn’t be discussing a fatal shooting now.