Not quite. The police then murdered an innocent and endangered many other innocents wholly based on indulging their own authoritarian power trips. Multiple eyewittess counts confirm that the man was doing ZERO for them to overreact to.
This is from a person who grew up in a community of small towns that had some very, very GOOD cops whose wisdom and ability to remain calm and humble no doubt saved MANY a misdirected youth from choosing a bad road, instead gently urging them to the good road toward productive adulthood. In this same community, there were one or two BAD cops whose stupidity, arrogance, and tendency to panic certainly created criminals out of misdirected kids who came to have an ingrained hatred and contempt for all law enforcement.
Bad cops are WORSE than criminals because their collateral damage is far more wide-ranging.
I don’t doubt the cops overreacted, but the report of a “man going beserk” didn’t help matters. Believe me, if he had been, the CCTV footage would already be released.
After reading the eyewitness accounts, it sounds like the cops murdered the man, complete with a kill shot just to make sure.