Quote Originally Posted by thrashaholic
The section: "...to unload five shots into the man and shoot him dead..." is extrememly emotive, conjuring images that the police unecessarily shot the man in cold blood; the use of 'but' instead of 'and' makes it seem as if the reasons are not imediately apparent, which, of course, they are; and "need to" is rather more confrontational than "should".
A man just got shot in front of dozens of people by the police. It's quite an emotive topic, hence the emotive language.

Quote Originally Posted by thrashaholic
Also, no where do they seemingly acknowledge that this man was an obvious threat and that the consequences had the police not killed him could've been far more catastrophic.
The MCB are just asking for the police's reason for killing the person. If the man was 'an obvious threat' then that is a reason.