It's funny how Artyem treats one Vice article as The Ultimate and Final Truth when it's clearly written by someone misinformed. First, they don't even know the number of shots - six - and second, it's obvious they're just confused from the fact that a flash bang was indeed thrown, and bean bags were indeed shot, and live rounds were also shot, but not in the order they claim. It's not a big wonder they're confused, though, because the order it was done in makes no fucking sense, which is the point.
Now, if the Vice article was not misinformed, they would not say "Cops first used a flash-bang grenade and beanbags against Boyd, but they didn't incapacitate him, so the police shot an unknown number of live rounds at him." Why would they mention a flash bang grenade and bean bags from an "incident before" (did not happen, there were people present with cameras the whole time, even before the SWAT team arrived), but not the flash bang and bean bags that were thrown and shot on the video?
Anyone with IQ of >100 would easily deduce this from available information. And this is not even all, I could go on for an hour about why it's obvious.
