It wasn't open and he wasn't eating. The AI flagged a bulge in his pants pocket, which was the empty, crumpled up bag that he put in his pocket after finishing eating all the chips.

This is quite frankly absurd. The fact that the AI flagged it is bonkers, and the fact that a human doing manual review still believed it was a gun... I mean, just, wow. The level of dangerous incompetence here is staggering.

And I wouldn't be surprised if, minutes (or even seconds) before the video frame the AI flagged, the full video showed the kid finishing the bag and stuffing it in his pocket. AIs suck at context; a human watching the full video would not have made the same mistake. But in mostly taking the human out of the loop, all they had for verification was a single frame of video, captured as a context-free still image.

It is frankly mind-boggling that you or anyone else can defend this crap.