The cop had no way of knowing he hit the torso with all 4 shots.
The cop was 9 feet away from the victim when the cop shot him in the back and the side. The bullet holes he made would have been very visible esp with all the blood being ejected from the holes in the victims torso.
I don't know what happened.
If you listen carefully, in the video a witness challenges the cop and said 'what happened, he wasn't doing anything', the cop replies 'he had a knife and wouldn't drop it.'
The cop shot him down firing 5 shots, also the cop already had his pistol drawn even before making the challenge on someone who was not committing a crime.
The one thing that sticks out in this is just how frightened the police seem to be. The initial shooting seems to be a combination of reversion to simpler levels of understanding, rote learning, and fear. But after that it is all fear. IMHO irrational fear. Holding gun/s on prostrate victims when they are pretty clearly no longer a credible threat. it is likely policy. But what were they thinking? Maybe he had a bomb vest? That the knife was a super weapon? That he might pop up and slash them all to pieces?
The police were probably frightened because it was probably quite clear on initial inspection when they arrived that one of there own had just committed a murder. The rest was street theatre for the onlooking public.
Why fire five shots? This poor fellow would have been floored by the first. Basically the more you analyse this murder the more you come to the conclusion that murder in the 1st degree is a more appropraite charge for this Seattle police officer.
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