The accompanying photo shows a pistol magazine. Specifically, this is the pistol magazine Orange County deputy sheriffs say James “New York” Bauduy was holding when they shot and killed him last year on a crowded street in Parramore. Bauduy, a suspect in a homicide, was unarmed when he was gunned down on South Street at Lime Avenue on the evening of April 20, 2018. The plainclothes deputies who opened fire that night – Sgt. Bruce Vail and Corporal Randy Hovland – were cleared of criminal wrongdoing by the Orange-Osceola State Attorney’s Office. In a report compiled by the Florida Department of Law Enforcement (FDLE), deputies said they fired at Bauduy because they observed a “dark object in his hand”. A pistol magazine, sometimes referred to as a clip, is not a firearm. It is a metal sleeve that holds bullets for a firearm. A magazine can’t fire bullets, even though one of the deputies told FDLE investigators that Bauduy raised the object as though he was taking...