Multiple witnesses at the scene when police fatally shot an armed Black Lives Matter protester said Friday that they did not see the protester point his rifle at anyone.

But the witnesses also acknowledged that they did not see all the events surrounding the 2020 shooting of 25-year-old Jorge Gomez near the federal courthouse in downtown Las Vegas.

That shooting is the subject of an ongoing federal civil trial stemming from a lawsuit Gomez’s family filed against the Metropolitan Police Department and the four officers who shot at Gomez: Ryan Fryman, Dan Emerton, Andrew Locher and Vernon Ferguson.

Officers who fired shots have testified that Gomez pointed a rifle at them. Lawyers for Gomez’s family have denied that claim.

Before the civilian witnesses addressed jurors, defense attorney

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