Tamir Rice got shot for exactly the same thing.
This dude, 50 year-old Mel Tittle, is agitating people at a gas station with a 'holstered' BB piston. Flashing it at people and quite probably being an insufferable dumbass and possibly endangering people.
The people there seemed to think it was bad enough to risk calling the police who arrived and demanded to see his hands.
Police said Tittle pulled a firearm from a holster on his hip when asked to show his hands.A black man would have been riddled with bullet holes at this point, but ol Mel seems to have had whiteness on his side."He initially had his back to me, but turned to face me when he pulled the gun out," said Deputy Brown.
After several commands, Tittle threw the gun on the ground and shouted that he had done nothing wrong, stated police.