Much closer to my line of thinking than blanks or rubber bullets. Hope they don’t find some poor homeowner a week or two down the road by the smell from a house.
Once he was cornered in the boat, you really have to question why even one bullet would be fired with any possibility of hitting a bystander or nearby resident. Why add to the death count from either stray fire or explosions? Once confined to the boat he wasn’t going anywhere unless an M1 Abrams tank filled with Jihadis drove in and picked him up.