That's murder. On film. One shot, maybe you can ******** a jury but any even mildly competent prosecutor will walk that cop through every shot and there is just no way to defend that many shots at point blank range being necessary to safely detain that suspect.
I know you can't see it, but I can. That is an automatic murder conviction. Dead man walking. He is already as good as convicted and jailed.
Not with the verified information that the offender was armed. Take into account the call that came in to bring the police that he was waving the gun at a patron of the business and there is no way IMO that this is murder, or anything even close to it.
I have felt since I looked at the video initially that if he had a gun on him that was prolly a justified shooting. Police are in a different mode when they know or realize an offender has a deadly weapon esp a gun. The fact that this man was repeatedly told to stop resisting, was allegedly tazed, still resisted arrest, had to be tackled and taken to the ground while still resisting arrest is a major factor in this incident.
I cannot be sure bc the best footage I have seen does not show it but it appears when the cops and offender are on the ground he is still wiggling and resisting and they are screaming to stop or they will shoot. Then it sounds like they actually saw the gun for the first time and if at that exact point the guy is still resisting and can at any point reach freely for the gun, whether he does so or not, they were justifiably within their rights to protect their own lives.
Bottom line like others have said, if you are armed and the police know you are armed and you resist arrest in any way, whether or not you reach for a gun, you are gonna get shot. I DGAS if u are white, black, green, yellow or purple. U are gonna get shot. Probably rightfully so. These goobs who say that well he was armed but he didn't reach for the gun and point it at the officers are nuts. If that was the standard then their would be a lot less cops in this world. Wait for the perps to point their loaded guns at you before you can engage.