The moral to this story is when the police tell you to stop then stop!!!!!!!! This guy was killed by his own stupidity. I'm sure that there will be much liberal hand wringing over this.
The 'shoot to kill' policy depends on whether the police suspect someone of being a suicide bomber, not on whether he's cooperating with them.
Yet another reason for foreigners to learn English.
What surprises me about this, and the many other similar comments on this and related threads, is how little attention people seem to be giving to the effects of a panic reaction. Everybody seems to be proposing various scenarios - that he was innocent as now stated, that he was slightly guilty (perhaps of some unrelated petty crime), that he was very guilty (of some terrorist involvement), that he was seeking 'suicide by police', etc. etc: and then seeking to rationalise his actions from that point on. Failing to discover such a rationale, he is simply then dismissed as 'stupid'. Is it not possible that this man, in a foreign country, perhaps already apprehensive after recent events in London, and suddenly confronted by a group of non-uniformed men shouting at him and waving guns, simply panicked? If panic takes hold, by definition you do not act rationally, and the flight reaction can simply take over irresistibly, and in this case fatally. The facts that he could understand English, or that in other circumstances he would perfectly well understand that you don't run when told to stop by an armed policeman, then become irrelevant.
How many of us could say with absolute certainty that we would not panic and flee in similar circumstances? I couldn't be that certain - assuming, that is, that my aging legs were capable of flight.