What would you characterize it as? Would execution work better? It definitely wasn't an accident, nor was it self-defense. Literally over $20, all the turmoil that followed, this guys life, everything this ignited shows that one life is worth more than a measly $20, the fact that it's caused billions of police dollars to be re-directed says he's at least worth all those billions of dollars that WERE earmarked for cops, and now will go to mental health, social workers, and others to deal with less dangerous mental health issues. As well as hopefully more/better training on what is acceptable and what is not.
A criminal and drug addict took a massive overdose of drugs shortly before being arrested, while behind the wheel of a car. He was uncooperative with the police, they called an ambulance as they could tell he was high on drugs. He refused to get in the police car, instead asking to lie on the ground. He lay there, being restrained in the standard way, and had a heart attack caused by the 4x lethal dose of drugs he had taken, possibly in an attempt to avoid being charged with their possession. The pathologist report proved that the cause of death was due to the drug overdose. Then, lawyers got involved, paid for a second pathologist to create a phony report, and spun a false narrative that the media swallowed up, and this inspired massive amounts of racists to riot, murdering cops and other citizens, rapes, assaults, arson, looting etc, and then these rioters organized and joined forced with another domestic terrorist organisation with similar aims called antifa.