I didn’t get that shooting, either. Or the old drunk in Fresno with the garden shears. Sometimes the mentally ill need a little more time to process. I don’t like the attitude of ‘let’s get this over quick’.
That mentally-ill homeless man/police stand-off in Albuquerque was not "over quick." The officers were there for more than four hours before it went down. Not saying the shoot was right or wrong (from my viewpoint, it was not justified, but that's me. I wasn't there, and the video of the shoot doesn't clearly show the man's hands right at the end, nor if he was reaching for a knife).
We had another shooting the other day where an officer fired two rounds, with one hitting the perp and killing him. Just prior to this, the perp had rammed the officer's car twice (in the driver's door). The officer was trapped inside his vehicle. The perp got out, and at the last second put up his hands, just before being shot. To me, that one was justified.
Just prior to him ramming the officer's car, he had rammed his girlfriend's car while she was attempting to get away from him. She had her child and a friend in the car with her. They were all attempting to flee on foot after he disable the vehicle.
To me, when the guy got out of his truck and approached the officer's car, there's no way to tell intent, so the officer fired. This was within seconds of the perp exiting his vehicle.