And it appears that so far, no explanation of any sort has been offered.
At the very least I expected his statement to be something along the line of "She surprised me and I thought she was attacking us."
If it isn't that, then the only explanation I can think of is that he was on drugs, probably meth.
It makes people crazy paranoid.
He feared for his life, and just wanted to get home to see his family.
(am I doing this right?)
Victim must have been white. Because a (black) Muslim cop cannot be a racist, guilty perpetrator, of course. /s