My closest Blue Life told me last night that "there better have been a gun," or that cop murdered him. He laid the whole situation squarely at the feet of the police. Even if there was a gun in the car, the cops were "just stupid."
His is just one opinion, but it's not my left leaning, skeptical opinion. It's one from a guy whose spent his life in blue, who has served a ton of warrants, both those that came easy, and those where they went in ready for a fight, who has had his hand on the trigger and thought he was going to have to pull it, and who has put murderers behind bars. Like most cops, he has a dimmer view of humanity than I do, and he knows there are a lot of dangerous, bad people on the streets. And he thinks society is being unfair to cops right now; he plans to take his retirement as soon as he can because he's sick of it.
He thinks the pair of cops were stupid, and that the cop who pulled the trigger was in the wrong--and not unless there was a gun in the car, unless the cop saw the gun in the car, or the victim said he was getting it.