Is a toy gun a weapon? If someone points a toy gun at an officer that looks exactly like a real gun, according to the cited webpage, that is considered "unarmed". Does the officer need to verify that what appears to be a gun is actually a firearm before he world be justified in protecting himself from reasonable imminent threat of death or great bodily harm? Of course not. My point is that it is absolutely ridiculous to cite 104 "unarmed" black men were killed by police, without looking at the actual facts and getting context as to what actually caused the deaths to occur.