[kiplinger]

The early narrative was that it was the dispatcher's fault because she didn't relay the message (from the original caller) that the gun was probably fake. I've seen the video, it looks like he tried to pull on the cop, but the video is grainy. I'm no officer but I'm not sure why they decided to pull so damn close to him when they knew he may have had a weapon. The kid was pointing the gun at people - clearly he didn't deserve to be shot, but talking about him like he was some innocent babe laying in the sandbox is dumb. All three of these incidents in the last few months have had very big gray areas. The NYC choke out was by far the worst, IMHO. But, none of these compare to the DJ Henry case from a few years back.