“should he have shot the guy 13 times?”
Let’s assume the first bullet killed him. What is illegal about shooting a dead man twelve more times or 100? Once you are dead, you are dead. End of story.
is the goal of a cop to render a suspect so that they no longer pose a threat? or is it to kill the suspect?
13 shots and shooting somebody when they are down sounds a lot like a “free pass” to just kill the guy even if he’s no longer a threat.
i’m a student of history. the Nazis consolidated their power by taking over the police forces. those police forces were used to intimidate the citizenry. the willingness of the police to beat or kill a citizen on the thinnest of pretexts is how they did that. could it happen here? if you don’t think so, then maybe you’re not paying close enough attention.
Just saying.