“I suppose it is absurd to suggest that someone transporting a coke dealer and who goes to such links to evade capture might in fact be the guilty party”
Yet your logic is impeccable, the evidence that the pastor is guilty (he knew his passenger was a drug dealer and that the people confronting him were police, not armed assailants) is irrefutable.
Notice that to Jonah, the woman is already a convicted coke dealer, and the pastor knew this.
What a Gestapo mentality.
This case reminds me a lot of the FBI SWAT team in Maryland who blew the face off of the Eagle Scout after a mistaken ID felony traffic stop. Half of the Fibbies were screaming "GET OUT NOW!" and the other half were screaming "DON'T MOVE!" as their M-4 rifles were all aimed at his head through the windshield.
He finally moved a little to unbuckle his seatbelt, and they shot him in the face with a rifle.
THen they were high-fiving over his bleeding body on the sidewalk, while his equally innocent passenger/girlfriend screamed in horror. They didn't call an ambulance for a long time, hoping the "bandit" would bleed to death first.
F-ing Gestapo mentality.