Would be funny if panda-hedgehog man becomes the next big martyr for police brutality. He'd make for an unusual figure.
That seems like it's probably what he's going for, really.
What else would the cops have done? Taze him? Might set off the bomb, if it were real*! Or even if it didn't and his fingers were on the detonator, they might clench and trigger it.
Of course they failed to kill him with their hail of bullets, so he could have still triggered it anyways, had it been real. But he couldn't get any closer, I guess.* I have no evidence to support this claim, but I have not searched for any either. If I'm wrong, you can say "It is known, Khaleesi." Hmm. But what kind of floatation device? At first I was picturing one of those round tubes you wear around your belt, but it would make more sense if it was just a vest, because then the cops might have avoided shooting at the "bomb," and therefore not shot him in the lungs or heart etc?
HMMMM.
That said, a guy in a panda or hedgehog suit, or panda-hedgehog pajamas, or whatever, wearing a floatation device, is a really bad terrorist and probably mentally ill (whether you can tell the bomb is fake or not). Unless future cops stop shooting people like that, in which case it could be a future crazy-like-a-fox terrorist taking advantage.
In the Bataclan one of the terrorists' vests detonated after he was shot, so it's not a ...
bulletproof solution.