“The gun slipped out of the holster when he had fallen, and I think he may have tried to retrieve it,” Smith said, adding that the officers began firing as soon as they saw the weapon.
“A good guy with a gun” pop quiz.
But Donald Dietz, 25, an employee at the sports bar, claimed that the officers warned Washington first.
“They warned him multiple times not to reach for it, but he did,” Dietz said. “People think they were overzealous, but they had to do it.”