[kalimus]

Doesn't matter what the victim did in all honesty. While I strongly maintain that these idiots should stop running the cops (and WTF was this guy doing out of the car and in the park after being pulled over for a tail-light?!), this officer very clearly had other options than to use deadly force. The man was not running with any real speed, and the officer could easily (or should have been able to easily) catch up and tackle him. Hell, he had time to radio for backup, and still catch up to him even if he jumped after him on one leg.

If the man were armed, and the officer already had his struggle and could not subdue him... I think that may be a different story, but that doesn't appear to be the case. The man is supposedly unarmed, which means he is not posing a threat to either the officer nor any other person in the area. Additionally, he doesn't appear to have assaulted the officer, but is only guilty of resisting arrest.

TBH, this looks like a pretty cut and dry use of excessive force, and unless some sort of game changing evidence shows up, I would say the officer likely will (and should) be convicted.