I wonder why he was trying to take the cop's gun?
I'm certain he wasn't taking an instrument designed to kill with the intention of killing someone?
Perhaps he was going to clean it.
The cops definitely over-reacted, the departed (PIP) was a good dude and all.
A leg shot would of been very do able, it is very easy to hit a small target especially while your motor functions are deteriorating from adrenaline, and exhausted from fighting a rabid crackhead.... and further everyone knows that the second a mentally ill and narcotics fueled athlete is shot in the leg he will instantly stop fighting. DUH! Wake up America!