I would not have shot him.
I would have called for backup, stayed with him, warned others to stay away, and possibly have tried to engage him with a stun gun or, just keep talking him down.
Then again that takes brains, not guns.
This poor, weak, crazed bastard with a “long stick” didn’t need to die.
And that’s all I have to say about that.
Not sayin’ the cop didn’t have the “right” to shoot him,
but I wouldn’t have.
Easy to armchair quarterback a shooting. Who knows how it would have played out following your plan. The officer stood in the gap while citizens were in the vicinity, and stopped an apparently mentally disturbed man who crashed his vehicle into innocent citizens vehicles, brandished and then used a weapon capable of causing great bodily harm or death. The officer did no wrong. Like Mike Tyson said, “Everyone has a plan until they get punched in the mouth.”
I think you would have been the dead one on the news. Maybe not but my gut tells me someone was going to die in that encounter.