“Those last shots were a bit over the top. The guy was not a threat by then.”
He was still holding the knife and still moving long after the last shot.
I’m only talking about those fired once he’d crawled away from the woman and was on his back. From that stance he’d take time to try get up (as opposed to slowly twitching), giving the cop plenty of time to start shooting again or to reload.
Look, I’m not saying it was wrong to shoot the guy ... just that the cop went a bit over the top once she, the victim, was clearly out of danger of receiving new wounds and he, the cop, still had distance and reaction time on his side.
Also, very “Psycho” of the perp to use a chef’s knife.
And if he’d watched Chris Rock’s how not to get beat up by the police recently he might not be dead now. Not committing crimes was a big part of the advice Rock offered.