The gun was removed by agents from his waistband - he was never pointing it at them. He was already disarmed when they fired "defensive shots," killing the man. They then fired several shots at his lifeless body.

I grew up in a pretty Irish town in NYS and in the st. Patrick's day parade there are banners for the hunger strikers. The first year my best friend and I watched the parade not with our families we realized most people in our town had no idea who these people were.