Hideous. Even sober, I don’t know if I would have successfully obeyed the cops commands. And why have the suspect crawl toward you? Why not approach him while he is face down, hands extended, legs crossed on the ground? By ordering him to crawl toward the cops, didn’t the COPS force him to act in a way that could allow someone to go for a gun?
I think I figured out why the officers had him crawl - he was down on the floor in front of two doors on the right hand side of the hall, one of which could be opened without the officers being able to see it. It could have been used to ambush the officers if they approached the guy on the floor. You can see the door at 17:25. Wasn’t very well handled by the cops, though.
However - his mistake was quickly sweeping his hand back toward his waist (why? No idea) with multiple guns trained on him. That’s an automatic game over, unfortunately for him. IMHO this is unfortunately a justified (if barely) shooting simply because of that.
They did. But the bootlickers on this site will say that the deceased brought it on himself.