Yes, if you are going to blame the cops, you dont admit that he had a pistol and fired it....
what morons.
Alot of these incidents are determined by what the police think the public perception is.
A few years back, there was a case where two guys were shot dead outside a casino in the middle of the night. It was all over the news for a few days, and all the talk of the guy being a murderer, etc.
Then, it just disappeared. Didn't show up on the news at all.
Casino people reviewed some security tapes, turns out the dude had cashed in over 4K, two creeps saw him do it and followed him. He gets to his car, the creeps try to roll him, he pulls out his 9mm, tells em to back off, they don't.
Couple shots, the guy gets in his car and calmly drives away. No charges ever filed.