you're not wrong. but i'd argue contact alone doesn't establish lethal intent. if she's trying to simply escape she'd turn the wheels and run, which is still incredibly stupid but its not the same as trying to commit vehicular homicide.
like we've seen many cases of people driving into crowds, or even people shooting at Ice agents. this just doesnt seem like that. its a dumb lady who by all accounts is literally part of a group of people who's sole purpose is to impede ICE.
and rather than get out of her way, follow her and pull her over, and arrest her (a good sign to people not to fuck with ICE during raids), they shoot her and create a martyr in a case that's anything but cut and dry. she was unarmed, appears to be trying to escape, and the officer was only slightly nudged.
then the regime calls her a domestic terrorist, and trump says the cop is lucky to be alive and in the hospital. so its gaslighting to try and save the day.
Don't get me wrong its a far cry from domestic terrorism in the sense of someone planning an attack, building bombs, writing manifestos, etc.
But she's still manifesting the criminal intent, taking the criminal action, being the cause of the proximate harm, being the aggressor, disregarding the safety of others and acting maliciously and recklessly.
Justifiable self defense doesn't require that the other person be a firebreathing dragon from legend, some monster out to grind your bones to make your bread. As long as the circumstances would put a reasonable person in fear for their life, lethal force can be justified to stop the attacker. In some cases that has been tragic comedies of errors where two well-intentioned people wound up shooting at each other when both have fear. In some cases, one person is a clear aggressor like a bank robber, but is still culpable under transferred intent for deaths or injuries that result from other people trying to stop them, like a cop shooting at them and missing and hitting a bystander.
And that's not just a legal standard, its a moral and logical one. This woman woke up and chose to stalk and harass ICE agents. She chose to obstruct and impede them, even though it was clearly criminal. And she chose to flee officers, and disregarded the safety of everyone around her. Maybe she chose to try to run down the officer and her lack of traction saved his life, maybe she chose to disregard his safety and was trying to turn past him and just clipped him. We live in a world of actions and consequences, she had already made her intentional choices at every step leading up to that moment and she caused the situation. It simply doesn't matter whether she was trying to flee or run someone down at that point, a reasonable person seeing a vehicle aimed at them and spinning its tires as a lunatic ignores police orders has every reason to open fire and neutralize the threat, and her consequences were no longer a judgment of the courts but of a bullet