Or really only one big question: Why did none of the other cops who were there tell their colleague to stop firing his weapon?

Here’s some of the story. Granted the kid had PCP in his system and was behaving erratically, he didn’t appear to be threatening the cop who shot him in the video that’s been released. He looked to be veering away from the two cops closest to him. Why shoot at all? Why not use a Taser?

There are plenty of other questions, to be sure, not the least of which is why it took 13 months to get an indictment laid against Van Dyke, the cop who fired 16 rounds into the youngster. I’d have thought once the city decided to pay Mr. McDonald’s family $5 million in April of this year that was tantamount to an admission of police misconduct, if not guilt.