[jyl]

The guy was being tased by officer 1. The shooter, officer 2, was 10 or more feet away. They were backed up by other cops on scene. How was he an imminent threat to the cops?

How are Tulsa cops trained?. Are they trained that a Taser is used to immobilize a person, so that your partner can get a clean shot?

Doesn't matter if they thought he was not responding to commands because he was on drugs. Being on drugs - or being thought to be on drugs - isn't a reason to be shot dead. Not responding to commands isn't a reason to be shot dead. If it was, the cops could shoot dozens of people every night in every city in the country. Go to the streets where the clubs empty out at 3 am, or where the homeless and druggies lay around, you'd run out of ammunition before you run out of possibly drugged and non responsive persons.

A person should have to be an imminent threat to a cop's life and limb, to earn a bullet.

I used to be usually defending the police in these threads. Cases of hot pursuit, suspects in a crime brandishing or pointing or pulling out something that looks like a gun, I'm usually willing to give the benefit of the doubt to the officer who has to make a decision in a fraction of a second. This guy wasn't a suspect, wasn't holding anything, wasn't moving fast, he was immobilized by the Taser.