This should be interesting...
Not really, Officer's safety doesn't matter.....until it does.
Like the other day in DC, guy rams a barricade and gets out of his car with a knife....just a knife you know.......refuses to drop it and well, its just a knife and he's 10' away. Hell, a white cop and a black guy in this climate? In DC? Its just a knife. Then the guy closes fast, takes a couple of rounds but kills one cop and wounds another before he drops.
If the cops would have fired the moment he got out of the car and refused to drop the knife......"well hell those racist bastard cops, too damned worried about officer's safety......it don't matter, they just sent some mother's son to his grave because they were concerned with something meaningless like officer's safety".
YOU make the call, with too damned little information in about 1/5 of a second. YOU tell that dead officer's wife and four kids that officer's safety doesn't count.