There are copycats desperate for attention who watch every incident that gives attention to suicide ... in this case suicide by cop.
They are copycats.
Whether the argument is worthy or not, it is about the copycats and not the dead guy.
Imagine if the cops had shot to kill earlier. That is the flip side. It would be interesting to know the thinking of the cops. Were they worried about how it would lookk?
Copycats is perhaps another term for contagion, and is fueled by the press. It seems to go in waves. Assassinations. Hijackings. Serial killers. Bombings. And now mass shootings.