[Gay State Conservative]

This is clearly an ugly situation. A disturbance is called in..a potentially violent situation (domestic). The cops are sent to the wrong apartment and bang on the door. A kid,minding his own business,answers the door with a gun (at his side?).

It might have reasonable for the cop to suspect that the kid was meaning to do him harm...given that it was a "domestic" that he was called to.

Yes,it also would have been reasonable for the kid to fear that this was some kind of home invasion...in which case it would have been reasonable for him to have a gun.

IMO the single most important factor here is the cop having been directed to the wrong apartment.

[DesertRhino]

All that it’s true. And the pistol was being held in his right hand, down by his side. In the very first second, at the -mere sight- of a gun, the cop opened fire. He isn’t cut out for cop work.
Bad shoot.
Hate to say it, but contrast the reaction here to that well to do airport manager in Arkansas getting killed by ATF a few weeks ago.

[traditional2]

Bend over, taxpayers; you're going to be paying millions in Litigation Lotto settlements, when the biased Jury gives it away.

They're not suing the apartment owner; his pockets aren't deep enough.

If the deceased were white, you would not even hear about the incident, except locally.