I think there is more to this story than is being told.
The 'assumption' that the witness wants you to make is that the man was 'unarmed' and 'scared', and that the police just held him down and killed him.
According to this statement:
"They held it down to him and unloaded five shots into him. I saw it. He's dead, five shots, he's dead."
But, later in the article, another witness states:
"There were six or seven gun shots behind us. "
So either the first witness was wrong about the number of shots, or the 'petrifed man' was shooting also.
I have no problem with that. This moved out of the realm of civilian law enforcement when the jihadis started using other Mohammedans as a recruiting pool, and camouflage.
Another witness says three shots.
Ah, eyewitnesses.