The cops didn't even have tasers. Police departments have to retrain their officers or at least give them non lethal means to solving these types of problems.
This almost leaves them no other options but to shoot him.
We shouldn't be looting or setting things on fire right now though.
A lot of those non lethal methods don't work though. Tasers, pepper spray, rubber bullets. You get stabbed up real quick using any of that if they don't go down. And some fool said shoot em in the arm like folks is RoboCop
Police departments need to learn how to negotiate like they rescuing hostages. De escalate, de escalate, de escalate, beat that shyt in they head till they learn. Y'all wanna bring up politics, let's see what creepy Joe does to fix this because personally I ain't seen nothing that would help