He actually got a ticket for not switching off his high beams . Like seriously the cop wanted to fuck us over so badly for no reason <| sep |> The kid could ' ve said directly I ' m going to kill you or I ' m gonna beat your ass as he approached the man . In another article the man claims the teen flashed a gun . It ' s possible he had a gun that one of his friends removed from the scene . Or maybe not . It was near a store so maybe security cameras picked something up . I can think of all sorts of ways it could play out in which a jury might find his actions count as self defense depending on the rest of the details . Or maybe he ' s just an old trigger happy fuckwad . My point is that there isn ' t enough to go on in the article . But that ' s why he will be tried by a jury with a lawyer with all the details laid out rather than by the commenters here . As far as my opinion on him having a gun , I think he shouldn ' t have one and he should be charged for his offense .