My response to that was "Hey, let's see the film". Then I pointed to a local experience where that's exactly what the off-duty cop said happened to him, and he got off after he'd killed a passenger in that vehicle. We had another such event, and a different prosecutor in this area moved heaven and earth to get that cop off and he wasn't even from Virginia!
Oh, yes, I'm really likely to believe a cop's claim that the AV tried to run her down.