The officers should have handcuffed him away from the car door, but it was Daunte that caused the conflict situation.
The handcuff technique was to use the car to hold him on one side and the officer on another. The officer had one hand free to apply the cuffs, and the driver grabbed his hands together, and pushed them to his body, so the cuffs couldn’t be applied. The shooter tried to pull one of the arms away from the drivers body, that’s when he wriggled free and got into the car.
All of these situations stem from not following police directives.