They were kinda rough on that guy. How much derder can you be than dead?
Ideally, he would have been tackled by the three officers rather than terminated, but the radio message that he was handling a gun in the store, was acting erratic, was mumbling and removing steel bottles from their containers and appeared 'drugged up' ... if you're going to draw down on someone, draw enough caliber to put them down in one or two center mass shots.
Two officers fired from behind the man after or as the officer in front fired two rounds. People all over the place around the officers ... too easy to have collateral injuries from officer misses or perp shots gone astray.
Did any of the three have a non-lethal option that they could employ immediately? I don't see anything on that in all the media released material and articles.
A trasgic death has happened. A poorly handled situation is what we see now, with the media spin and hate mongering from a peanut gallery of cop haters, but in the moments of the events, sorry, I would have dropped this guy as the best alternative when I saw him take weapon in hand. Only I would have made a head shot to try and end the confrontation instantly.
All of that said, the officers in question should possibly be removed from any possible future armed confrontations, as a precaution. There are plenty of support jobs in law enforcement which don't require a weapon on the person. Yeah, I've seen even dispatchers sometimes have a holstered weapon, but not all and not by department requirements.
Bottom line? ... There is no bottom to the feeding frenzy as several posters are demonstrating, including smartass insults to longtime Freepers. A feeding frenzy is seldom pretty don'tchaknow.