I read the news articles yesterday about this as it was really my first time hearing about this situation. They way it was explained really made me gravitate towards "he had a knife. The other officer shouted it was a gun, so when it was pointed he just shot before being shot…"

Then I looked up the body cam… holy shit did my opinion change in a hurry. The officer that said he had a weapon pulled up right next to the car. Like so close he had to squeeze between the vehicles. What cop does that?! The cop that shot him ran right up to the driver's side of the car. Like right up on him. If you have your gun out and you are afraid of the dude, why would you do that?! There were lots of opportunities to take up a defensive position and start talking… you could see into the car on the cops body cam at shit quality. You're telling me he couldn't tell the difference between a gun and knife?!