[cuban leaf]

She wasn’t a threat to anyone. 30 years ago people ran from cops all the time for minor infractions. They didn’t get shot.

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For me, the one “mitigating fact” for the officer is that she rammed his car, almost hitting him, before he fired. If she had simply taken off after being stopped, his firing his gun would be utterly ludicrous. It isn’t, if he almost got crushed. It would put him in a different mindset, assuming he is a normally functioning human being.

[OneWingedShark]

For me, the one “mitigating fact” for the officer is that she rammed his car, almost hitting him, before he fired. If she had simply taken off after being stopped, his firing his gun would be utterly ludicrous. It isn’t, if he almost got crushed. It would put him in a different mindset, assuming he is a normally functioning human being.

Except that, according to the excerpt, he was still the aggressor:
When the shooting took place, Wilson was outside his patrol car. He had used a bumping maneuver to force her car to stop on Camino Carlos Rey.

(I can't watch the vid right now, so I don't know how accurate the description is.)

[driftdiver]

If he shot at her as she was backing into him I’d be ok with it. She was putting his life in danger. Although there’s an argument that his stepping out of the car into that position was what put him in danger.

Him running beside her car to shoot at her is murder in my book.