[pacific_waters]

Bottomline, He shot him in the back. The threat was abated priot to the murder, No amount of excuses can support the claim that he felt threatened.

[norton]

"he" did not have to feel (still) threatened. He'd made a legitimate stop, then been shot with his own taser, by a guy who had simply run a red light, fought him & then fled, he was still hurting from the taser, the light runner (no pun) had shown he was violent and capable, not to mention eager to escape a simple misdemeanor (why) and therefore posed a potential threat to anyone else he might encounter in the process.

I promise you I'd have shot him in the same situation and "threat to others' is sufficient to justify a police shooting.

PS, I promise that, having a very spotty history with them, I'm not used to building alibis for police.
But I wouldn't start a fight over a traffic ticket either.