thats the only fukking reason to shoot a gun. Not to scare, not to puncture or wound, not to deflect. To kill. This is the basic rule of owning and using any firearm. Never point the gun at anything you dont intend to kill.
Its simple the cop shot to kill whomever he was aiming toward. Therefore he shot to kill the teenager.
Not to mention cops are trained to shoot and kill, not harm. He shot this kid with a AR-15 rifle in the head. Anybody who has shot that gun know how powerful it is, and how large the rounds are.
You got underpaid, undertrained ass cops combined with a lot of them being bytches, c00ns, and racists which equals to them never deescalating the situation. Again the chief is protecting the officer until it's time for that GoFundMe page.
Hell who knows if a GJ will even indict and at Max he will walk or get a BS manslaughter charge(highly doubt) But if a regular citizen had done that he will get charged with capitol murder. Again the local media is allowing the police Dept to control the narrative. Which has a lot of people pissed off.