Even if we assume that the police are illegally detaining you, and illegally removing the gun from you, it is only a terrible decision to try and stop that removal by fighting with them. You will get shot. There is a 100% chance of that.
"But he might not have had the gun when the cops shot him."
As with the direction the tires point on a car that strikes the officer, it actually doesn't matter all that much. If the suspect doesn't know that his gun is out of play, then it's still lethal intent on his part, and he may continue his effort to kill a police officer, and may shift to a back-up weapon when he realizes he doesn't have one. If the police don't know that the gun is out of play, then it's ongoing imminent attack with lethal force.
Great, did anyone else know? Like, the cops that fired? Or were they fighting over a gun, and were under the assumption that the gun was still in play when the first round went off?
"But it might have been a negligent discharge from one of the officers?"
Was it negligent, or were they fighting over the officer's gun and that lead to a discharge? Or, did he intentionally fire his gun under the perspective that he had that the gun was still in play and threatening him? Just because it's no longer there, it doesn't mean that the officer's perspective in an entangled gun fight, wasn't reasonable.
Do not pull guns on cops.
Even if we assume that the police are illegally detaining you, and illegally removing the gun from you, it is only a terrible decision to try and stop that removal by fighting with them. You will get shot. There is a 100% chance of that.
"But he might not have had the gun when the cops shot him."
As with the direction the tires point on a car that strikes the officer, it actually doesn't matter all that much. If the suspect doesn't know that his gun is out of play, then it's still lethal intent on his part, and he may continue his effort to kill a police officer, and may shift to a back-up weapon when he realizes he doesn't have one. If the police don't know that the gun is out of play, then it's ongoing imminent attack with lethal force.
Here's a video of a police officer shooting a suspect with his own gun. Police will absolutely shoot you with your own gun if you are still attempting to kill them with it, even if it's in their hands.
"But one of the cops knew it was out of play."
Great, did anyone else know? Like, the cops that fired? Or were they fighting over a gun, and were under the assumption that the gun was still in play when the first round went off?
"But it might have been a negligent discharge from one of the officers?"
Was it negligent, or were they fighting over the officer's gun and that lead to a discharge? Or, did he intentionally fire his gun under the perspective that he had that the gun was still in play and threatening him? Just because it's no longer there, it doesn't mean that the officer's perspective in an entangled gun fight, wasn't reasonable.
This shit is pretty straight forward:
DO NOT. DRAW GUNS. ON COPS.