She was clearly told to get out of the car. She backed up, and stepped on the gas, hitting the ICE agent. Happened in a split second. Same agent had been drug by a car earlier. I'm not going to second guess whether or not he should have used lethal force. You guys can if you want.
Heres the bad part.
He was not in front of the car to begin with.
He put himself in harm's way, by moving to the front of of an occupied vehicle, to accomplish what?
Apprehend a misdemeanor suspect?
Look up 10 deadly errors.
Basic cop rules.
All they had to do was let her go, grab the plated, and ler the locals deal with the bs obstructing charge.
Plenty of times ive had to just let stuff go when I was working.
Also, had she not had the wheels turned to the right, her car wouldn't have ended up where it did.
It also did look like the cop was fiddle dicking around with something rather than just simply getting and staying out of the way and dealing with her later.
Was it murder? Manslaughter? Maybe. So many intricacies to the law regarding intent, events leading up to the encounter we don't all know about, etc.
Another issue I saw is that for sure, his last 2 shots were fired while he was on the driver side of the car, not in front. The first was fired POSSIBLY when he may have been out of the way. Really hard to break down with it all happening so fast.
But generally once the threat has stopped or moved on, justified deadly force goes away.
Him moving in front of the car was the final catalyst though, IMO.
Should he be a cop any more?
Absolutely not.
And a question for those here.
Would you step in front of a car that was occupied and in motion or ready to go in motion?
