I'll bite. 
  
Indian woodcarver, slow-moving, rather small in stature, 50+ years old with small, legal blade. By all accounts non-threatening, and a record of nothing more than petty drunkenness and public urination. 
  
Rookie cop, I would guess 20-something or 30-something, armed with a 9mm pistol. 
  
Cop shoots him at range FOUR FUCKING TIMES. 
  
What exactly more needs to be known now? You must have a rather vivid imagination to contrive a scenario that warrants a scenario in which that cop feels his life is immediately endangered and requires him to blast this guy over and over. So let's hear it...  
  
you're talking to a dude who can't decide weather or not to pay a simple parking ticket in a country who so graciously lets him in to climb their rocks...