I am well aware of the effects of pcp and how it can give people super human strengh of resistance, ect, but that is not a factor here. The officer wasn’t engaged in a physical fight with him. Get real. you want out of control cowboy cops who can shoot anyone who makes them nervous? No thanks.
It could have gone physical in the blink of an eye. The officer was already well inside of the 21' range where a suspect with a knife can cause fatal injury without reaction time for an officer to draw and fire. The drawn weapon was totally justified and within TPD procedures. Put that together with a reach back into a vehicle and that adds up to way beyond nervous.
Suspected PCP ingestion coupled with the guy’s size would have raised the pucker factor a tad, I wager.
I don’t have a lot of sympathy for anyone who willingly takes that stuff. Even less if they’re a known pusher.