Texas cop shoots armed suspect in wheelchair

This law enforcement bodycam and dashcam footage coming from Austin, Texas shows an officer in an encounter with a suspect who appears to be armed with a handgun. This situation is complicated, both tactically and ethically, by the fact that the fact that the suspect is in a wheelchair. Viewer discretion is advised. Responding to 911 calls regarding a wheelchair-bound man spotted in the roadway with a handgun, and further that he had pointed it at passers-by, Austin Police Department officers made contact with one Danny Palomino. Palomino wheeled away from the officers, ignoring their commands. As the officers followed, Palomino turned and pointed his weapon at one of them, whereupon the suspect was shot with an Agency-issued AR-15. Although aid was provided to Palomino and he was transported to an area hospital, he was later declared deceased. Furthermore, the weapon in his possession was revealed to be a BB-firing replica Glock. Prima facie, this is an ugly case, and that's partly why I chose it to discuss. "Cop shoots handicapped BB gun guy" is invariably going to get bandied about, but the logic in this situation is actually fairly clear. The officer had no way of knowing whether the weapon in question was real or not, and Palomino's being in a wheelchair has zero bearing on whether he could pull the trigger. It's unrealistic and unfair to expect an officer to act on more information than he has; and in this case the total is "the suspect is pointing a handgun at me." It may weigh on his conscience, or the court of public opinion might try to force it to, but the cop made the only choice he could in an awful situation.