It looked to me like he didn't actually charge forward towards the door, but rather looked to - and then moved to - his left as if he was going for something else, presumably an object of some kind.
It will be interesting to see what threats the guy was making, whether he implied he had other weapons, and what the firing officer perceived him to be about to do just before the first shot was fired. If the suspicion was the guy was going for some other more lethal weapon, and persisted even after the first volley of shots, that might explain the additional shots and, potentially, the taser.
If it does turn out to just be a dude with a knife and no other suspected danger though, it does not look good. The sooner the department makes a statement the better.
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