If he wasn’t ready to kill or destroy a target in front of him, why was his finger in the trigger guard area?
There were several Freeper threads on it at the time.
Chicago has about 800 murders in a good year. It had 3.5 times the population of Detroit that year ~ yet Detroit had had 350 murders by May when this happened.
The cops are always nervous on these forays into the neighborhoods tracking down the bad guys because Detroit is bad, real bad, so bad you wouldn't go there even with an automatic weapon fully loaded and ready to go off in your hands.
This guy has to live with that the rest of his life ~