How can you possibly hold this opinion after reading the account from multiple eyewitnesses? Unless you hate cops de facto, then you just ignore facts.
The guy was wasted on booze and pills (thereby negating his right to carry), and gave cops no option (since they are blamed by the public no matter what they do anyway). Good shoot.
BS. This death was due to a dangerous development in police culture in recent decades.
I used to co-facilitate a group therapy session for Vietnam War vets twenty some odd years ago at the V.A.. There was this one guy who had a terrible time of it. He was an Airborne infantryman at one of the worst blood baths in the Vietnam War, Hamburger Hill, and never got over it. He'd sleep with a revolver under his pillow, and came close to killing his wife a few times during night terrors. This guy would sometimes go out on the city streets in the middle of the night with his revolver in Fort Lauderdale and start shooting out street lights. Cops would be called on a man with a gun shooting in the streets. He never got plugged full of holes by a black clad tactical team. Always just got asked by regular uniformed cops to drop his gun, then got driven home to his wife. And this guy had a revolver in hand each time the cops arrived. Back then there weren't tactical cops looking to plug someone, all tactical-like.
Not saying that's the best way for cops to handle that situation, but it's an example that demonstrates that it's not us "civilians" who have a distorted view on the case in question about modern police overreaction. This sort of reaction is not something that's always been the typical police response to reports of a man with a gun. It's something new, and bodes very ill for our future as a nation.
