When you know the details of the story you’ll probably be surprised the cops didn’t shoot him outright (they had been shooting at him earlier in the chase). This is Jersey City, not Newark; they have a chance, but that depends on culling the herd. Ask the burn victim from the chase finale if the cops overreacted...
'...we believe with certainty that this man is the bystander from West New York who suffered burns, not Leo Pinkston, the individual pursued by police,' Hudson County prosecutor Esther Suarez said."