We brought you this picture of the “respected” Mr. Smith earlier, courtesy of one of his friends.

Here he is with his buddies, all flashing signs.

Now it is traditional among street criminals to take pictures of themselves with lots of money and their guns, sort of as a brag as to their capability. Gee, here is Mr. Smith, showing off his money.

Here’s Mr. Smith showing off his guns.

You may notice in that last picture, there appears to be a threat made against the police by Mr. Smith’s friend, MooGram, with guns pointing at the head of the police emoji.

This man who says he is Mr. Smith’s cousin also seemed to make a threat with this semi-intelligible rant. Police might want to check that out.

Now we’re not saying all these things show Mr. Smith was in the wrong in this case, we’ll wait for the facts to come out, unlike Milwaukee rioters. But what has been stated so far doesn’t look in his favor: that he had a stolen gun, stolen during a burglary, along with 500 rounds of ammo, that he’d been told to drop the gun, but didn’t.

If riots are now being justified based on shooting someone who may actually have been pointing a gun at a cop, we really have come to a sorry pass.

HT: BPR