She was lined up with him with her wheels pointed forward at the moment she accelerated, and he was in the path of her vehicle at that moment. That's when he reacted and drew his weapon to fire. Its unreasonable to try to overanalyze the splitsecond after that moment because his reaction was already underway. He can't anticipate that she's going to turn her vehicle and miss him. And she didn't. Her wheels spun for several rotations while they were still pointed forwards, and if she had full traction she would have struck him full on. Instead she managed to turn slightly, and struck him with the corner of her vehicle even as he jumped back. We don't know the extent of that strike, it might have 'just' been the side mirror.
There is no imaginable world in which it is okay to accelerate into people in front of you. Period. She chose to floor her vehicle and gas it when she was lined up with a pedestrian in front of her. Every single responsible driver on the roads knows that if anyone is in your range of motion on foot, you stop your vehicle entirely. You wait for them to get out of the way. If you're accelerating into people who are on foot, you are risking running them down. What if the officer had been walking forwards just a couple feet and was hit full square on? What if her tires locked? What if she spun out? What if anyone was in her path to the right, which I can guarantee she wasn't looking at and checking because she never stopped and looked cautiously like a sane driver.
This is laughable even for you. Quite clearly she's turning in your frame by frame video. You turn the wheels one way in reverse avoiding people. Quite certain if she was on a killer rampage which you seem to think she was she wouldn't have taken any care at all when reversing and the wheels are quite clearly going the other direction after. Pretty standard human movements when driving and altering directions.
There's no imaginable world where this should be warranted force. All your what ifs? Move to the side. You think a bullet to the brain is safer more likley to die on the accelerator. Probably the dumbest action of all actually if you really think about it at all.
Take the stupid logic of oh car lines up driving at me let me pop them in the head that will stop it when it's a foot away. If you say we'll side step and shoot. We'll then just side step.
Guy wanted to kill someone period.
This post was edited by SBD on Jan 7 2026 05:42pm