They should have killed him. People like this don't deserve to be in society.
while true......but you don't get it. If you put a skinny Chris Rock, you would see spaghetti of flesh and blood on the ground. The cops will shoot a black and not think about it before they shoot a white, even if they are on meth, coke or heroin. In Wisconsin reports of fights against cops are the norm, even when the cop gets their ass kicked severely, but when it comes to blacks fighting them, guns drawn, dead. My wife first cousin tells me this all the time when they go to bars and parties and with the laws of conceal and carry they are afraid but will not fire on them even if they get their ass kick. Don't like the stories of domestic abuse or drunk drivers wrapping their car around a tree. He knows I don't want to hear about that, I just like the things he says about tazing folks and not going down and he was afraid and use other means to subdue them. He never had to face a perp with a gun, but was able to disable a few with knives. When they are on something, they are kind of shaky and easy to take down is what he said. Common sense to me.
This Ferguson cop is right in shooting him if he thinks he will get his ass kick and that person had a weapon on him, but if it were a white, I don;t think he would have shot, because the cops here don't and want shoot a white. They taze, mace, pepper, everything before even bringing out their weapon unless the white guy has a knife or gun, which in most cases they get gunned down. This state does not allow the city or county to investigate killings by cop against unarmed perps, it is independently done and thorough and do a very good job.
I have not made judgment yet because there are twenty stories out there and Faux News and their white supremacist sites are passing off links of false information.
In the end I think he charged the cop and the cop panicked shooting him more than necessary. I don't think he should be a cop anymore, but he shouldn't go to jail using excessive force on a situation he was not able to contain. Overzealous come to mind and a person died of that result.