This is old news.
The cop did what he thought was best.
But....was what he thought best legal...as in does it fit the definition of self defense in the state where this happened.
I am not one to automatically say the police are right....too often they are not.
I had always heard about lying cops but until I experienced it myself I never paid much attention to it.
Just not enough info to make a good call on this case....the facts that the guy killed could not speak and had no history of violence....leads me to think the officer may have made a big mistake.
I recall another incident in a Las Vegas Costco....a west point graduate was in the store shopping with his g/f...he had a license to carry a concealed weapon...he went to bend over to pickup something and his shirt pulled up and a costco employee saw the weapon....obviouslly someone who had a fear of gun....he called security....security called the police...by the time the piolice were dispatched ....the story had evolved to man with a gun holding hostages....that is what the police who rushed to the scene thought was going on.
Meanwhile the suspect continued shopping with his g/f blithely unaware of what was developing.
When the police arrive they had the store management to tell everyone to evacuate the store....no one knew why....but per the announcement over the p.a. system everyone started walking outside....including the suspect with his g/f like everyone else he had no idea of what was going on.
When he got outside the store employee pointed a finger at the guy...and hollered he is the one.
Whereupon the police immediately started issuing conflicting commands....bottome line one of the cops thought the guy was either not complying with police orders or he was not complying fast enough...so he fired a shot...when he did the other cops started shooting also....the west poiint graduate innocently shopping with his g/f was riddled with bullet holes and died immediately.
The police were exonerated on the grounds the west point graduate was not complying with police commands.
Many stories like this regarding Vegas cops and some of them even worse.
Vegas cops were known to be trigger happy and it was also known Las Vegas cops would hire cops that had been fired by other cities....and it is very difficult to fire a cop.
