Then, when they did their stop and squat in front of the guy out on the freeway he'd be distracted ~ which he was ~ then he could be shot easily on some pretext.
This one ain't over!
It could be. Usually, when I hear hoof beats on a horse ranch in Arizona, I think horses and not zebras.
Now, they could have a zebra as a pet, or one could have escaped from a zoo, or any number of things, but odds are, it is going to be horse hooves.
There isn’t enough here to say otherwise. But then again, most of us at FR have learned long ago that you only get from the media that which they would like you to see, so there may be more behind it.
Of course,the British media wants to portray the USA as a country where innocent people who get stopped for cutting someone off get shot routinely by the very people who are supposed to be protecting them. That, of course, wouldn’t happen in THEIR enlightened country where neither the police nor the citizens can have firearms.
But you are correct, from the story, nobody knows, especially not the person who wrote it.