Just watched the surveillance video on Youtube. It’s not the clearest video, but it looks like Ayers did not attempt to hit the officers with his car. It looks like he was shot because he didn’t obey the officer and stop. It’s likely that this was a clear case of excessive use of force by police. They could have just jumped in their SUV and pulled the guy over later with their lights. If they didn’t have lights on the SUV, they could have just followed him until he went home and then talked to him. There was no need to shoot this man. This was a trigger-happy cop who used excessive force, by all appearances. I hope this gets a fair investigation and the cop is prosecuted if he committed manslaughter in this case. I know it’s not easy being a policeman and these people are very courageous, but if you can’t handle some threat to yourself without shooting then you shouldn’t be a police officer.
No way either of these guys can ever work as a cop again ~ not and be trusted ~ and certainly no one wants to trust his business to people who can't think under pressure.