Thanks. Did it look to you, from the overhead drone video, as if a cop jumped into LaVoy’s lane of travel, green-lighting an “assault with a deadly weapon” scenario? Looked to me as if he’d have been safer where he was, and tthat it was known LaVoy would naturally fly wide left on the curve.
I thought that when I first saw the video, but now I think that the OSP state trooper probably freaked out at the prospect of being behind a vehicle that was going to be hit by a pickup truck doing 50+ mph.
If he was doing anything other than that, he was being foolhardy. [trying to force Finicum into deeper snow, or purposely jumping to trigger what you wrote]
It just goes to show you how dangerous fixed roadblocks really are - for both sides of the encounter.