People have come to their conclusions based on their personal biases. The video is not clear cut. What you can see is he is moving toward his vehicle. Did the police direct him to do so? Unlikely. He was not following instructions. You an make all kinds of assumptions. He was deaf and he didn’t understand English. If someone with a gun tells you to stop, in no matter in what language, you stop. There is certain revealing body language especially when looking into the barrel of a gun. Law enforcement are not trained to kill. They are trained to shoot center mass. This usually results in death. No for shots, or knee shots. Helicopter pilots do not swing around to conceal shootings.
Good golly. It is funny how you question one element of something that you are totally against it. I have no clue if the cops were justified or not. Your assessment is reasonable, in fact, I tend to agree with it. I do know that it was NOT a safe shot, given the vehicle directly in the line of fire. I would not have taken the shot. I would have repositioned to either side of the road. Would I have been more exposed? You bet. But if he shot at me down the road or I at him, it is too dangerous. Shooting perpendicular to the road seemed a better option.
My point is, many of the officer shootings are very dangerous. There was one in Chicago where the vehicle passed between two officers on either side of the street. At one point, they were aimed directly at each other if not shooting awfully darn close to each other. Later in the same vid an officer is reloading while running behind another officer. From his body cam you can see he is aimed at the other officer. I was stopped by the cops once while one held a pistol on me with another officer directly in the line of fire. They are amateurs.
My point is, their procedure is dangerous. They clearly do not practice these scenarios or safe conduct. It is one of the reasons they get in trouble.