It certainly looks as though the police over-reacted by using the "beanbag" shotgun round on an old person at a close range - rupturing his spleen.
You would think that a 95 year old man would be pretty frail and that two police officers would be able to have subdued him by some non-lethal method even as simple as two officers throwing a blanket over him.
We don't know all the circumstances but from what has been on the internet, the police overstepped the bounds of disarming and does not look as though they were in imminent danger so the beanbag round was not necessary.
Chances are that the officers are going to face a stiff penalty and the family will have a big lawsuit collected.
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