“Come on, I haven’t said that they should have shot him OR even suggested that in so many words. “
Wouldn’t that be a more effective way of neutralizing such a dangerous threat to the police?
The police have to make every effort to use the least possible force necessary - and that is the least amount of force that reasonable officers, at the time, would consider necessary. It's not a matter of only what people looking at it with hindsight think the police might have been able to do.
I've heard so many people lately, mostly on the left, say that police should be more willing to be shot, since that is their job to take that risk. They also shouldn't ever fire their weapons until someone is actually firing at them first.
And again, that's wholly your suggestion that this man should have been shot.
You have yet to answer for how the police should have physically apprehended him, and on what you believe would have happened if they did as you say they should have. Please answer those questions.