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Your lack of credulity notwithstanding, police couldn't know he was unarmed.
Problem number one with your argument. Asserting that he hadn't committed a crime at that time isn't warranted unless further info comes to light, problem two.
They couldn't know he was armed either. You'd need to establish that he had committed a crime for any of that to matter, and you haven't. At the time shots were fired, he was innocent, and now that he's dead, he died an innocent man. So, the argument that the cop was preventing innocent people from being hurt is expressly refuted, he guaranteed that an innocent person was harmed by killing this kid.
What's more, we don't hold cops accountable for the actions of others based upon their own action or inaction. That standard would be devastating to cops in exactly these sorts of situations.