"...should be able to kill anyone leaving the club. Surely some of those who were in the club deserved killing."
You make a good point here. Just because the club is a notorious drug and sex shop, doesn't give license to police to shoot on sight. I just don't believe that this is what happened in this case. It sounds like self-defense. This perp tried to run over a cop, then rammed a police undercover van twice, and was going for an encore. Just when would you have started shooting? After getting a close-up view of the radiator? While getting your teeth flossed by a couple of Goodyears?
I agree with the others; your remarks are out of line.
The reason we are posting these articles is to get a complete as picture as possible, so we really know what happened.
1. The club in question was a sh!t-hole, and located in a neighborhood that is a sh!t-hole even by New York standards. As such, it -- and many of the people who frequented it -- was the subject of some close scrutiny by the NYPD.
2. While the driver of the car may have tried to ram the police officers, there is a very good possibility (in fact, I'd call it a "likelihood") that the men in the car had no idea that the men outside the car were actually police officers. See Item #1 for an explanation of why they would have every reason to question the intentions of anyone who surrounded their car. Do research on "Dorismond, Patrick" to find a similar case in which a civilian was shot and killed by NYPD officers who apparently never identified themselves properly before shooting him.