Why, yes, I DID write that.
I'm not sure how you managed to twist that statement into the strawman "Some here claim that if no round was chambered, the cops should have known that before they fired."
Let me explain it to you. See, YOU or SOMEONE ELSE pretending that Erik Scott's gun had a round in the chamber has NOTHING to do with the police.
The police got to assume that there WAS a round in the chamber.
After the fact, which is where the pretending is at, NO ONE, including the police, are allowed to get away with it.
For example, if Officer Mosher found out that there wasn't a round chambered, and he had a shred of decency or integrity, he wouldn't go in front of an inquest and start telling fantastic stories about he could fire a gun through a holster just like Erik's.
He'd man up, and say, "Gosh, there wasn't a round in the chamber of Erik's gun. I guess I must have misread his intentions in the confusion."
But that would open Metro to BOATLOADS of liability, so it's easier to put the smear on the "drug-crazed snap-shoot-through-the-holster dead guy.
The police should get to use the fact that they didn't know if it was loaded "to assert that he could have shot through his holster, and taken innocent people hostage".