I can see shooting back after the perp fired on the cops, but reloading several times after one shot?
He was hit 14 times and survived? What were the cops using, BB guns?
What were they shooting at? They missed the target with 70 shots?
My only thought about it is that it seems like blind fearful panic on the parts of the two LEO shooters. One shot from a perp and they massively and methodically unload their complete ammo cache down range willy nilly.....very professional.
Old police joke: “Why’d you shoot him 44 times?”
Answer: “Ran out of ammo.”
You’ve never heard of suppression fire? As long as one of you is shooting it makes it that much harder for him to get off a good shot. In combat, in World War II, Korea and Vietnam, approximately one round of small arms fire in 10,000 hit a target and four out of five people hit with small arms survived.
The police in New York used to use the .38 Police Special, not for it’s stopping power, but lack of stopping power. The round is unlikely to penetrate walls and ceilings and strike by-standers. It’s a feature, not a bug.
One shot and the attack on the half sister establish he is a threat to the public at large.
Even if he dropped the pistol and kept running, the police would be right to shoot him. (per police manual)