IF, and its a big if, the guy had a gun and was directing it towards the police...then this is a simple case and no question that the actions taken were the right ones.
However, if he was indeed unarmed and/or wasnt in possesion of a gun but had one on him without control of it....we have an entirely different scenario.
Whatever happened seemed to escalate in seconds, but that video really isnt clear enough to understand exactly what was going on while dude was on the ground.
The optics though are really bad for the LAPD on this.
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