The article mentions other individuals, including at least one neighbor who saw the victim fleeing.
In other words, there are third party witnesses available and the police, as the journalist points out, haven’t accounted for why the gun was found next to the victim’s body.
Since it was the police who, by their own admission, shot him because (they claim he) had a gun, it is the police’s versions of the story that is suspect in this instance.
No second amendment supporting conservative believes that mere possession or holding of a gun warrants one’s immediate execution.
Period.
If your “friend” supports the Second Amendment, it would be wise for him to denounce this Bad Shot, on principle.
Oh stop it, I am not in the mood for a second amendment debate with this story. The police responded to a call in a very unstable neighborhood, with a reputation for drugs and violent crime. A person came out of the apartment where the call had been made from, he was brandishing a weapon. There were two other suspects running away and he was the only one with a weapon, which he refused to drop. It is being investigated and I am sure Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson will get it resolved.