Wallace wasn't unarmed--he was reportedly holding a knife when police confronted him--yet neither cop attempted to use non-lethal weapons on Wallace, who appeared to be in the midst of a mental health crisis. Despite the fact that witnesses warned police that Magdiel Sanchez couldn't hear--and thus comply--with their shouted orders to drop the pipe and get on the ground, police shot the man when he was about 15 feet away from them.