The Toronto-based Globe and Mail, Canada's largest national newspaper, ran an editorial Saturday criticizing the rookie Seattle Police Department officer who shot and killed John T. Williams, a Native American carver and longtime street alcoholic, last week. (The officer initially said that Williams lunged toward him with a knife, but that account is now in dispute.) In a similar incident in 2007, four Mounties tasered Polish immigrant Robert Dziekanski to death in the Vancouver airport.

The paper writes:

An officer may have rushed to resolve a perceived problem that could have been handled with patience and common sense. Mr. Williams has a history of homelessness, and had been living in a home for long-term alcoholics. The officer never called for backup. Some people who knew Mr. Williams say he was partly deaf, and had cognitive problems; whatever the case, unless he posed an immediate danger to the officer’s life, there was no justification to shoot him at all, let alone four times.

Native American groups plan to hold another protest of the shooting later this week, but have not yet set a date or a time, the Seattle Times reports.