Very convenient for this other officer to now come up with this story about this earlier incident after this shooting took place.   It would be far more convincing if this had been documented in an earlier police report, and not a new one made after the 17 yr old was killed.

This could very easily be one police officer lying in order to help exonerate a brother officer.   How do we know that the police did not plant this fake gun on the teen?   Does any other evidence exist, that he really owned such a fake gun?