If I was a cop, my focus on this would be figuring out how to prevent such an event from reoccurring, not justifying it six ways to Sunday.
As long as the victim is a 300 lb. dirtbag who's trying to bash in your head, honest law-abiding productive folk are going to be behind you all the way.
Twelve year old kid with a bb gun? Harder to get behind that, even if it's "justified", especially considering the details may not all be available. Lose the backing of honest law-abiding productive folk, gonna be an awful lot harder or impossible to do your job.
I realize there are plenty of issues here, the neighborhood, size of the kid, dispatcher selective info, etc. I'm not talking about any of that.
