"turning it on his children or the Officer"
so you admit you have no idea of his intentions. that they could have been anything including "go sit in his car for a bit and listen to Sepultura because of all these crazy women doing his head in"
And " ensure the assailant stops reaching for a weapon" is a much nicer way of saying the "making sure the man getting into his car is totally fubared"
The link you gave, while it might be protocol for US cops, describes examples where the officers are actually being threatened with weapons, not "maybe he's going fish one out of his car so I better execute him just in case"
Again, you seem to know more details. if he actually said he was getting a gun, then that's a fair justification. That he actually had some weapons charges, I think it puts it into the debatable pending enquiry category on whether it was justified. But the fact it's getting looked at all is because of both being on film and the BLM protests. ones with far less justification almost never resulted in even a caution before this. It took a week of protest to change their mind and investigate the Floyd killing, one that ended up with adverse findings against the officers involved when looked at by an independent coroner.
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