Channel 12 News in Phoenix asked legal commentator Attorney Marc J. Victor what he thought about the shooting. “I think the officers shot too quickly here,” Criminal defense attorney Marc J. Victor said. Victor said he believes officers didn’t give Whitaker enough time to put the gun down. “There’s nothing that violates Arizona law, unless a person is a prohibited possessor, from simply having a gun in their hand,” Victor said. “But it looked to me like this person who came out, the victim, sees that, recognizes he had a gun in his hand, and then immediately surrenders.”